Use YAML for configuration
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- Dominant language
- C
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- 22
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- 12
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Description
The current configuration parser has some memory leaks and sometimes behaves a little bit buggy for invalid configuration files. In addition we need additional features for future development of PnMPI.
Instead of fixing and enhancing the current one, I'd like to suggest to use YAML for the configuration files, so we can use existing libraries instead of maintaining our own configuration parser. In addition this simplifies third-party tools (e.g. MUST), as they don't have to dump a specific configuration syntax, but may also use a YAML emitter. However, this will break the API, so the version needs to be bumped to 2.x.
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Research direction
Start by locating the current configuration parser and its public API, then review how invalid configuration files and third-party tools such as MUST interact with it. The proposed work is to replace that parser with YAML support, account for the API break, and determine the required 2.x version bump.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, yaml
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100