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libconfig-1.7.3

library for manipulating structured configuration files

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Description

Libconfig is a simple library for manipulating structured configuration files. This file format is more compact and more readable than XML. And unlike XML, it is type-aware, so it is not necessary to do string parsing in application code. Libconfig is very compact - for example, the stripped C shared library is much smaller than the expat XML parser library. This makes it well-suited for memory-constrained systems like handheld devices.

Package information

Ports path
devel/libconfig
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64, m88k, sh

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