Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/7] parse: create new library for parsing strings and env values

Jonathan Tan [off-list ref] writes:

Thanks - I think that patches 1 through 4 are worth merging even now.
One thing we hoped to accomplish through the libification effort is to
make changes that are beneficial even outside the libification context,
and it seems that this is one of them. Previously, code needed to
include config.h even when it didn't use the main functionality that
config.h provides (config), but now it no longer needs to do so. (And
same argument for hex, although on a smaller scale.)

Thanks for writing this down.  The parser is shared across handling
data that come from config, environ, and options, and separating it
as a component different from the config does make sense.