[py-configparser-cvs] r3 - public_html

[ehuelsmann at common-lisp.net]

Author: ehuelsmann
Date: Sun Jan  6 16:31:28 2008
New Revision: 3

Modified:
   public_html/index.shtml
Log:
Update the website.


Modified: public_html/index.shtml
==============================================================================
--- public_html/index.shtml	(original)
+++ public_html/index.shtml	Sun Jan  6 16:31:28 2008
@@ -13,10 +13,48 @@
    <h1><!--#include virtual="project-name" --></h1>
  </div>
 
- <p><em>This is an automatically generated placeholder page: this project
- has not yet created a website.</em></p>
+<h1>Project description</h1>
+ <p>The <b>py-configparser</b> package implements the
+  <a href="http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ConfigParser.html">
+   ConfigParser Python module</a> functionality in Common Lisp.</p>
 
- <p>Back to <a href="http://common-lisp.net/">Common-lisp.net</a>.</p>
+ <p>In short, it implements <b>reading and writing of .INI-file style
+  configuration files</b> with sections containing key/value pairs of
+  configuration options. In line with the functionalities in the python
+  module, does this package implement basic interpolation of option values
+  in other options.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>The main reason for starting the project is to be able to share
+  configuration files between Python and Common Lisp. Other projects
+  may be using the python/INI file style files too and the project is
+  by no means limited to the ConfigParser functionality. So, if you
+  have any wishes and/or nice extentions based on this format, please
+  send your contributions or extention requests.</p>
+
+ <h1>Examples:</h1>
+ <pre style="border: 1px solid black; background-color: #ccf">
+
+[my-section]
+option1 = value1
+option2: value2
+
+[interpolated-section]
+option1 = value
+option2 = value2 and %(option1)s
+# this is a comment; the above line evaluates to "value2 and value"
+
+# empty lines and comments are skipped
+ </pre>
+
+
+<h1>Releases</h1>
+<p>Having recently started (Christmas hacking, 2007), the project doesn't
+have any official releases yet.  The code however should be useable and
+the only reason there's no release is because there are no unit tests yet.
+(Yea, working on it....) </p>
+
+<hr>
 
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