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<preface id="preface"><title id="preface.title">Preface</title>

<para>

While developing lot of C/C++ applications we often comes to state, that we

During our daily involvement in C/C++ development, we were often confronted

need sophisticated command line and configuration file parsing library. We also

with such repetitive and mechanical tasks as parsing the command line or

knew already existing parsing libraries for both, command line and

configuration files. We quickly came to the realization that a robust and

configuration file, such as <productname>popt</productname> or

versatile library for performing those tasks could save a substantial amount

<productname>parsecfg</productname>, but these libraries can work only with one

of our development time. Examples of existing tools with similar

from the issues. We wanted one library for whole configuration stuff. We wanted

functionality included <productname>popt</productname> or

also to share configuration properties in one data structure, we wanted to

<productname>parsecfg</productname>. Although both were effective at

parse both configuration resources in similar way with huge set of features. So

addressing one of the aforementioned problems, neither one provided a unified

the &name; was born...

solution. Clearly, the stage was set for a new tool with a uniform and

consistent API for parsing both the command line and configuration files. And

that is how &name; was born...

</para>

</preface>


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