Application: AnyOldName3

[Zini]

Please note that openmw.cfg is parsed via boost program option. I guess these are limitations of that library. So the way around it would be to encode the problematic characters in a different way; for example like space can be encoded as %20 in an URL.

[AnyOldName3]

Thanks. I'll get investigating.

[scrawl]

Another problem with boost's program options is that multi-value options are parsed in the wrong order when you load several files. This is why I marked #2976 related. Maybe it's time to toss out boost and write our own config parser that does exactly what we need.

[aesylwinn]

There would appear to be two implementations for reading ini-like files. One using Qt in components/config/settingbase.hpp and one using boost in components/settings/settings.hpp. You may want to look into that. I agree with scrawl. Anyway, good luck.

[Tels]

Although some should not re-invent the wheel, writing a config parser isn't that hard, so maybe go for it instead of fighting the existing libraries

[AnyOldName3]

I'll see what can be done without totally overhauling everything before I decide to gut a whole system that mostly works. A parser for this kind of thing isn't beyond what I should be able to do - I've written a simple ini file reader for a university project before, and technically have written a general SLR parser generator, too, although that's both totally overkill for this, and also not hugely suited for the kind of data representation that would be useful here.

[AnyOldName3]

I've got one version of a solution to https://bugs.openmw.org/issues/3045 ready as a pull request, but I apparently completely missed the point of what Zini was suggesting. Now I have a better grasp on what's going on with boost::program_options, it shouldn't be too hard to implement something a little more desirable. I could jump ahead with what Zini suggested, but I feel I have a slightly better option, which is described in this github comment:

https://github.com/OpenMW/openmw/pull/9 ... -232140091

I'm asking here instead of just on GitHub so there's a bigger chance that people who are users rather than devs can weigh in an opinion if it's on the forums.

Thanks.