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

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

On Wed Mar 25, 2026 at 1:17 PM CET, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Am 25.03.26 um 12:40 schrieb Christoph Heiss:
>>> 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.
>
> Alternative could be to just put it in proxmox-wireguard directly for now.
> But that mostly depends on how specific this INI flavor is, or how
> different the ones for potential use cases (besides this the usage in
> systemd and git might be the most prominent ones that might interest us
> already or sooner or later).

I think it's worth having it somewhere "public", not specific to
proxmox-wireguard.

The ability to write out multiple sections with the same name should not
interfere with writing any other INI-flavored configuration files (and
apart than that, it is just common INI), so it would be generic enough
to use elsewhere.

If really needed, we could provide a simple toggle for disabling that
support instead of having a whole different serialization
implementation, IMO.