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On 03/05/2013 06:16 PM, Alessandro Pilotti wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> We recently moved the nova.conf Hyper-V options to a dedicated group and we ended up having different casings for the options group in Nova and Quantum, as section casing conventions differs between the projects. E.g.:
> 
> nova.conf:
> [hyperv]
> 
> quantum.conf:
> [HYPERV] 
> 
> This inconsistency can lead to a lot of issues from a user perspective, as it's quite difficult to troubleshoot this type of configuration file errors. IMHO a common convention should be decided and applied consistently across all OpenStack projects. Since the [DEFAULT] group is uppercase, I'd go with this casing, but anything else is fine as long as it is consistent.  
> 
> In a recent chat on the #openstack-nova channel, markmc proposed to do case insensitive group names matching, which IMO would be a perfect solution.
> This is also supported by the fact that historically sections (groups) names are case insensitive in the INI format used by OpenStack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file#Case_insensitivity  

It's worth noting that for tools based on iniparse,
it treats sections as case sensitive,
but variable names as case insensitive.

python's inbuilt config parser may be similar.

So if this change is made, there may be some adjustment to ancillary tools required.

thanks,
Pádraig.