[Discuss] Application config files

[Jerry Feldman]

No, it is relatively short. The only complexity is the exclude files list.
In general most users will only exclude Linux hidden files.

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 1:41 PM Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:

> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > I have an application that I wrote where I am using a .ini style file for
> > config. I chose that as an afterthought but maybe JSON, YAML, or TOML
> might
> > be better formats. I set it up that way because I thought my target
> > audience might be more familiar with .ini. Right now the code has no
> > capability to save the preferences, but that should be an option, so a
> more
> > Linuxish config file might be better. I'm personally very comfortable
> with
> > both YAML and JSON. Opinions? (My code is Python3/GTK3).
>
> It usually doesn't matter.
>
> If it's short, .ini is perfectly fine.
>
> If it's a potentially long config file, the best thing you can
> do is make it capable of reading a directory worth of files
> to include in the main config, so that replacing a small bit
> without affecting the rest is easy.
>
> include /opt/application/config.d/*
>
>
> -dsr-
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