[Botan-devel] RFC: removing inifile.cpp and the config= argument to initializer

Jack Lloyd lloyd at randombit.net
Wed Nov 14 11:13:52 EST 2007


OK, 24 hours with no response so I'm calling it good. Removed from
mainline in revision 997c5e5f5f496b19fc3ad073c47986235664521d

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:27:56AM -0500, Jack Lloyd wrote:
> 
> Does anyone use the functionality provided by config= to provide
> external policy information (or even if not, does anyone want to
> argue for its continued existence?)
> 
> Keeping a block of rarely used/tested code that opens an
> arbitrary file and tries to parse it using adhoc methods seems
> pretty dicey to me, and my guess is that it's never been used,
> since most of the time the compiled-in policy is fine with at
> most minor alterations.
> 
> -Jack
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