What library functionality would you most like to see in D?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 31-07-2011 11:30, Anders Ahlstr�m wrote:
>> I'm new to D, but I guess I might be able to develop some sort of configuration
>> file library (supporting reading and writing values etc.). Do you guys have some
>> sort of preferences or should I just go with standard INI files?
>>
>> AFAIK, D supports XML already, which can be used for configuration files, but
>> sometimes something simpler can be convenient.

On 31-07-2011 11:44, Mirko Pilger wrote:
>> I'm new to D, but I guess I might be able to develop some sort of
>> configuration
>> file library (supporting reading and writing values etc.). Do you guys
>> have some
>> sort of preferences or should I just go with standard INI files?
>
> maybe boost::property_tree could be of some inspiration here:
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/doc/html/property_tree.html
>

That seems like a good idea! As the doc page suggests, we could store 
configuration in XML, JSON, INI, or whatever people would want to use in 
their application. Phobos AFAIK has facilities for JSON and XML. Not 
sure about INI, though.

- Alex