diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ b/.gitignore
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+*.gem
+.bundle
+Gemfile.lock
+pkg/*
+.yardoc
+*.rbc
+*~
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
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+++ b/Gemfile
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+source "http://rubygems.org"
+
+# Specify your gem's dependencies in supportconfig.gemspec
+gemspec
diff --git a/MIT-LICENSE b/MIT-LICENSE
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+++ b/MIT-LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Copyright (c) 2011 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.rdoc b/README.rdoc
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+= Supportconfig
+
+* http://github.com/kkaempf/supportconfig
+
+== Introduction
+
+Library to access SUSE supportconfig and command line tool.
+
+Its main goal is to be clean and provide a command line tool
+that exposes its features.
+
+== Features
+
+Main use case is easy access to data inside supportconfig.
+
+Plugins can be written to deal with specific needs.
+
+== Extending Supportconfig
+
+Derive your class from Supportconfig::Supportconfig.
+
+== Debugging
+
+Set DEBUG environment variable non-empty.
+
+== Authors
+
+* Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf@suse.de>
+
+== License
+
+Copyright (c) 2016 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH.
+
+Bicho is licensed under the MIT license. See MIT-LICENSE for details.
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
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+++ b/Rakefile
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+$:.push(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'lib'))
+require 'bundler/gem_tasks'
+require 'supportconfig/version'
+require 'rake/testtask'
+
+extra_docs = ['README*', 'TODO*', 'CHANGELOG*']
+
+task :default => [:test]
+
+Rake::TestTask.new do |t|
+  t.libs << File.expand_path('../test', __FILE__)
+  t.libs << File.expand_path('../', __FILE__)
+  t.test_files = FileList['test/test*.rb']
+  t.verbose = true
+end
+
+begin
+ require 'yard'
+  YARD::Rake::YardocTask.new(:doc) do |t|
+    t.files   = ['lib/**/*.rb', *extra_docs]
+    t.options = ['--no-private']
+  end
+rescue LoadError
+  STDERR.puts "Install yard if you want prettier docs"
+  require 'rdoc/task'
+  Rake::RDocTask.new(:doc) do |rdoc|
+    rdoc.rdoc_dir = "doc"
+    rdoc.title = "supportconfig #{Supportconfig::VERSION}"
+    extra_docs.each { |ex| rdoc.rdoc_files.include ex }
+  end
+end
diff --git a/bin/supportconfig b/bin/supportconfig
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+++ b/bin/supportconfig
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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+#
+# encoding: UTF-8
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2016 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
+#
+# Author: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf@suse.de>
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+# included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+# EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+# LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+# OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+# WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#++
+$:.push(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib'))
+require 'supportconfig'
+require 'highline/import'
+
+# Set the console color scheme
+ft = HighLine::ColorScheme.new do |cs|
+  cs[:headline]        = [ :bold ]
+  cs[:horizontal_line] = [ :bold, :white ]
+  cs[:even_row]        = [ :green ]
+  cs[:odd_row]         = [ :magenta ]
+  cs[:error]           = [ :red ]
+end
+
+HighLine.color_scheme = ft
+# Our 'terminal' object
+t = HighLine.new
+
+# Scan all installed pluggable commands
+Dir.glob(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib', 'bicho', 'cli', 'commands', '*.rb')).each do |cmd|
+  load cmd
+end
+
+# Setup a logger and connect it with stupid libraries
+# that can't use a logger
+Bicho::Logging.logger = Logger.new(STDERR)
+# Don't show by default anything
+Bicho::Logging.logger.level = Logger::FATAL
+
+ret = 0
+begin
+  # create subcommands automatically from the available
+  # symbols in BzConsole module
+  SUB_COMMANDS = Bicho::CLI::Commands.constants.sort.map(&:to_s).map(&:downcase)
+
+  global_opts = Trollop::options do
+    banner <<-EOS
+    Usage: #{File.basename(__FILE__)} [global options] <command> ...
+
+    Bugzilla url can be given as https://bugs.kde.org or bko
+EOS
+    opt :config, "Read FILE as configuration file.", :type => :io
+    opt :debug, "Show debug messages", :default => false
+    opt :bugzilla, "Bugzilla URL or alias", :default => 'bnz'
+    stop_on SUB_COMMANDS
+  end
+
+  Bicho::Logging.logger.level = Logger::DEBUG if global_opts[:debug]
+
+  # get the subcommand
+  cmd = ARGV.shift rescue nil
+
+  if (!cmd || !SUB_COMMANDS.include?(cmd))
+    Trollop.die "available subcommands: #{SUB_COMMANDS.join(" ")}"
+  end
+
+  # Create an instance for the command
+  mod = Bicho::CLI::Commands
+  cmd_class = mod.const_get(cmd.capitalize)
+  cmd_instance = cmd_class.new
+  opts = cmd_instance.parse_options
+
+  ret = cmd_instance.do(global_opts, opts, ARGV)
+rescue Exception => e
+  Bicho::Logging.logger.error e.message
+  Bicho::Logging.logger.error e.backtrace
+  t.say("#{t.color('ERROR: ', :error)} #{t.color(e.message, :bold)}")
+  ret = 1
+end
+exit ret
diff --git a/lib/supportconfig.rb b/lib/supportconfig.rb
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+++ b/lib/supportconfig.rb
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+#--
+# Copyright (c) 2016 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
+#
+# Author: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf@suse.de>
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+# included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+# EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+# LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+# OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+# WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#++
+require 'rubygems'
+require 'logger'
+require 'supportconfig/version'
+require 'supportconfig/logging'
+require 'supportconfig/supportconfig'
+
+module Supportconfig
+
+end
diff --git a/lib/supportconfig/logging.rb b/lib/supportconfig/logging.rb
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+++ b/lib/supportconfig/logging.rb
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+#--
+# Copyright (c) 2016 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
+#
+# Author: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf@suse.de>
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+# included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+# EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+# LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+# OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+# WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#++
+require 'logger'
+
+module Supportconfig
+  module Logging
+
+    def self.logger=(logger)
+      @logger = logger
+    end
+
+    def self.logger
+      @logger ||= Logger.new('/dev/null')
+    end
+
+    def logger
+      Logging.logger
+    end
+
+  end
+end
diff --git a/lib/supportconfig/supportconfig.rb b/lib/supportconfig/supportconfig.rb
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+++ b/lib/supportconfig/supportconfig.rb
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+module Supportconfig
+
+  #
+  # class Supportconfig
+  #   base class
+  #
+  # contains generic file parser
+  #
+
+  class Supportconfig
+    def initialize client, dir, fname
+      @client = client
+      @fname = fname
+      parse File.join(dir, fname)
+    end
+private
+    #
+    # generic parser for supportconfig .txt files
+    #
+    # .txt files have multiple section, every section
+    # is named and starting with
+    #   #==[ <name> ]====...
+    # following is content until EOF or the next section
+    #
+    # this parser splits files into sections and assembles
+    # the section content as array of lines
+    #
+    # the section name is used as a callback name
+ 
+    def parse file
+      File.open(file) do |f|
+        content = []
+        section = nil
+        f.each do |l|
+          l.chomp!
+          next if l.empty?
+          if l =~ /#==\[ (.*) \]===/
+            # new section start
+            if section
+              # old section present
+              self.send section, content
+              section = nil
+              content = []
+            end
+            section = $1.downcase.tr(" ", "_")
+          elsif section
+            content << l
+          else
+            # skip header
+          end
+        end
+        # send final section
+        self.send section, content if section
+        self.close
+      end
+    end
+public 
+    #
+    #  Example callback
+    #
+    #
+    # section:
+    # #==[ Command ]======================================#
+    #
+    def command content
+      # empty - derive from Supportconfig and implement there
+    end
+
+    #
+    # close file (eof reached)
+    #
+    def close
+      STDERR.puts "#{self.class}.close not implemented !"
+    end
+
+  end # class
+
+end # module
diff --git a/lib/supportconfig/version.rb b/lib/supportconfig/version.rb
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+++ b/lib/supportconfig/version.rb
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+module Supportconfig
+  VERSION = "0.0.1"
+end
diff --git a/supportconfig.gemspec b/supportconfig.gemspec
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+++ b/supportconfig.gemspec
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+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+$:.push File.expand_path("../lib", __FILE__)
+require "supportconfig/version"
+
+Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+  s.name        = "supportconfig"
+  s.version     = Supportconfig::VERSION
+  s.authors     = ["Klaus Kämpf"]
+  s.email       = ["kkaempf@suse.de"]
+  s.homepage    = "http://github.com/kkaempf/supportconfig"
+  s.summary     = %q{Library to access SUSE supportconfig data}
+  s.description = %q{Library to access SUSE supportconfig data}
+
+  s.add_dependency("highline", ["~> 1.7.8"])
+
+  s.rubyforge_project = "supportconfig"
+
+  s.files         = `git ls-files`.split("\n")
+  s.test_files    = `git ls-files -- {test,spec,features}/*`.split("\n")
+  s.executables   = `git ls-files -- bin/*`.split("\n").map{ |f| File.basename(f) }
+  s.require_paths = ["lib"]
+end
diff --git a/test/helper.rb b/test/helper.rb
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+++ b/test/helper.rb
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+$: << File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "lib")
+require 'test/unit'
+require 'supportconfig'
+
+if ENV["DEBUG"]
+  Supportconfig::Logging.logger = Logger.new(STDERR)
+  Supportconfig::Logging.logger.level = Logger::DEBUG
+end
+
diff --git a/test/test_startup.rb b/test/test_startup.rb
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+++ b/test/test_startup.rb
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+require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'helper')
+
+class Startup_test < Test::Unit::TestCase
+
+  def test_startup
+    # constructor needs 3 arguments
+    assert_raise ArgumentError Supportconfig::Supportconfig.new
+  end
+
+end