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Replace INI setting documentation with HDF settings documentation

Open fredemmott opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

  • gives errors for typos
  • much clearer for structures such as arrays and maps
  • more familiar for FB engineers; this would make communication between FB and other users clearer
  • INI support primarily exists because of a previous goal of being a drop-in replacement for PHP; this is no longer a goal

fredemmott avatar Nov 21 '19 20:11 fredemmott

To clarify, HDF is already supported by HHVM - it's older than our INI file support. This is just a documentation change.

fredemmott avatar Nov 22 '19 17:11 fredemmott

much clearer for structures such as arrays and maps

I can't even find any description of the file format anywhere. The only thing I could find is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_Data_Format which seems to be a completely different thing (some binary format? the whole documentation seems to be written with the assumption that it will only be written programatically)

jjergus avatar Aug 04 '20 22:08 jjergus