Re: [PATCH proxmox v2 1/8] serde: implement ini serializer

["Christoph Heiss" <c.heiss@proxmox.com>]

On Tue Mar 24, 2026 at 12:13 PM CET, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Am 13.02.26 um 15:36 schrieb Christoph Heiss:
>> The official WireGuard tooling wg(8) uses a (mostly) INI-like format
>> for consuming configuration.
>>
>> E.g. `wg syncconf` will be used by in the future by the WireGuard fabric
>> for applying changes to a particular WireGuard interface.
>>
>> One of the quirks of the INI format used by wg(8) are that there can be
>> multiple sections with the same name, which is also explicitly supported
>> by this serializer.
>
> Any technical reason for this to be in proxmox-serde over a dedicated
> crate? like proxmox-ini or proxmox-ini-config or the like?

Not really. Didn't know if we wanted a dedicated crate for this and - as
you say below - proxmox-serde is mixed bag of serde-related stuff and
it kind of fitted, so just decided to put it there for now.

Will move it to a separate crate for v3.

>
> proxmox-serde is currently a bit of a mixed bag, but might be better
> for more for generic serde helper that should be mostly provived by
> upstream in some ideal world (from our POV).
>
> @Wolfgang: any opinion here.