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

[Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 12:13:05PM +0100, 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.

Does that last part even *need* explicit support?

> 
> Any technical reason for this to be in proxmox-serde over a dedicated
> crate? like proxmox-ini or proxmox-ini-config or the like?
> 
> 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.

Yeah so it's mostly perl and "should be in serde or serde_json" right
now and re-exports some of the `proxmox-base64` modules as well. The
last part is something we could probably discuss further, especially
given the array-as-base64 patch - perhaps the reexports should be
dropped and all base64 related stuff in the proxmox-base64 crate...
(This was initially mostly kept to limit the API breakage a bit...)

Anyway, this definitely should not be in here.