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Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
snipe.conf

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NeoHentaiMaster
Jul 13, 2004
More well adjusted then you'd think.
but seriously it's YAML

Lime
Jul 20, 2004

has anyone said constants in a header file yet

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
ooh that’s a good one

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
environment variables

travelling wave
Nov 25, 2013

Lime posted:

has anyone said constants in a header file yet

you're the first! as a reward you get to work out what's going on here

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

0-byte files with specific names and you delete them to disable features

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Sweevo posted:

0-byte files with specific names and you delete them to disable features

:eyepop:

Fuzzy Mammal
Aug 15, 2001

Lipstick Apathy
nice thread

.options file in a hidden directory

or maybe ini file in your roaming directory

Lime
Jul 20, 2004

Sweevo posted:

0-byte files with specific names and you delete them to disable features

nested structures in yaml, json, etc are just reinventing what the filesystem already does perfectly well thank u

travelling wave posted:

you're the first! as a reward you get to work out what's going on here

i don't know but caching my hot buddies sounds like solid life advice

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

carry on then posted:

time to summon shaggar

groovy
groovy isn't a configuration file format, its a dialect of java.

HoboMan
Nov 4, 2010

defining constants in your ant build scripts

There Will Be Penalty
May 18, 2002

Makes a great pet!
http://hjson.org/

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

running your jcl templates thru the customizer wizard

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

carry on then posted:

time to summon shaggar

groovy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juHgQBB2tLU&hd=1

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
the registry

skimothy milkerson
Nov 19, 2006

i have concluded that all config file formats are a pos, op

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Skim Milk posted:

i have concluded that all config file formats are a pos, op

:rolleyes: real interesting take you got there, idiot

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

initially read this as broml

for all your bro markup needs

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?
grossly underspecified csv

does it have a header line

how do quotes behave

how do you escape an embedded comma? (can you?)

who knows, just try it

skimothy milkerson
Nov 19, 2006

Captain Foo posted:

:rolleyes: real interesting take you got there, idiot

gently caress off foo cow

RISCy Business
Jun 17, 2015

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Fun Shoe
key-value pairs are winning, as god intended

Ellie Crabcakes
Feb 1, 2008

Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

The correct answer is a base-64 marshaled object from another language.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Voltage divider resistors on the PCB that you measure at runtime to determine configuration.

suffix
Jul 27, 2013

Wheeee!
jumpers

N.Z.'s Champion
Jun 8, 2003

Yam Slacker

http://json5.org/

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

Sweevo posted:

0-byte files with specific names and you delete them to disable features

bonus points if they're undocumented and the only way to find them is to run procmon and watch file system access then create the file and see what happens

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

write-limited fuse bits

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Sweevo posted:

0-byte files with specific names and you delete them to disable features

this but domain names

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Skim Milk posted:

gently caress off foo cow

:laffo:

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Powaqoatse posted:

this but domain names

This guy got arrested

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

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Doc Block
Apr 15, 2003
Fun Shoe
config.theAppsName

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