Re: [RFC/PATCHv3] git-instaweb: Add support for running gitweb via 'plackup'

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: May 23, 2010, 12:38 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikSXOrF-mS3XzVAohgoNXXNZwN3jBw6Sh4TnK6M@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201005222330.43532.jnareb@gmail.com>

2010/5/22 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:

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> Webrick, which is in similar situation, uses httpd.conf config file in
> YAML.  Unfortunately there is no config / serialization reader in Perl
> core, so if we have to go this route either the config file would have
> to be in Perl, or gitweb.psgi wrapper would have to include some simple
> config file parsing.

You could easily do (pseudocode):

    unless (eval { require Config::Any; 1 }) {
        do $conf_file;
    } else {
        my $parser = Config::Any->new( ... );
         $parser->docnf( $conf_file );
     }

Then you'd read (eval) a perl config file by default, but remain compatible with saner config formats for users prepared to install things from the CPAN.