support .toml files with -toml_compat (like -php_compat)

[Sadrak]

We are using Config::IniFiles for many years and would like to use also .toml-files. After some first tests it would be easy to allow a -toml_compat to respect some .toml specific syntax (not all).

Would you accept such a feature?

I guess one bigger problem would be the multi-section possibility from .toml-files, which -toml_compat simple won't support.

[shlomif]

@Sadrak : I feel that one should use a more TOML-oriented API to read and write TOML files properly, and trying to adapt C::IniFiles for that would be a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend and misleading and possibly destructive. What do you think?

[shlomif]

@Sadrak : hi, what do you think?

[Sadrak]

Yeah, I understand this absolutly and was thinking about a Config::TomlFiles module with exact the same behavior but toml as fileformat. Simple this feature would be only usefull for our case and feels like a false friend.

[shlomif]

On Tue, 04 Feb 2020 08:37:47 -0800 Felix Ostmann ***@***.***> wrote: Yeah, I understand this absolutly and was thinking about a Config::TomlFiles module with exact the same behavior but toml as fileformat. Simple this feature would be only usefull for our case and feels like a false friend.

Thanks for the reply, Felix!

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