A fork of the profile library code....

[Joseph Calzaretta]

Ted,

Okay cool, I'll take a look at it.  Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

One comment, re:
>I chose _not_ to support for arbitrary double quotes anywhere in the profile;
>there's no real need for tag names or section names with spaces

I'm not sure about this.  Since right now no tag names have spaces 
(or equal signs) in them and people seem to be getting along just 
fine, it's not an immediately urgent situation.  Examples off the top 
of my head where a need may arise:

The [appdefaults] section has tag names which are supposed to be 
application names.  On Windows & Mac systems, at least, an 
application name may contain a space.  I know Windows allows equal 
signs in file names.  I don't know if it would actually end up 
happening in practice where someone would want such a program in 
their [appdefaults] section, but it's a possibility.

Also, I hear tell of an eventual move toward IDN names, and Unicode 
encodings.  Depending on the encoding chosen for the profile 
configuration file, it's possible that the realm names in [realms] 
may contain weird characters which may or may not conflict with some 
of the special characters we're using.  Again, not sure if this would 
occur in practice.  Most of the ways I can think of for that to go 
down wouldn't end up introducing spaces or equal signs.  But who knows.

Just my "2\xC2\xA2"...

--Joe

Joe Calzaretta
Software Development & Integration Team
MIT Information Services & Technology