Le 2011-08-05 à 04:38, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <virik...@gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 02:14:46AM +0000, altufa...@mail.com wrote:
>> Fossil is flexible here. yes/no, 1/0, on/off, true/false any of these can be 
>> used for binary settings. Some settings (like proxy) even can use real proxy 
>> address than on/off. very cool!
> 
> Well, you can set a setting to 'potato', and you can be sure that it will be
> hard to forecast what it can do.
> You may set it to "enable/disable", "enabled/disabled", "Yes/No", ... and who
> knows if it will do what you expect.
> For the amount of possibilities you mentioned, you have to know the subset of
> English that fossil understands by knowing the source code.
> 
> If find this a bit misleading. If I said "fossil settings mtime-changes
> enabled", I'd like it to tell me: "please say on or off" (or whatever single
> agreement we come up with). I don't mind any of the names, but I'd like ot be
> one pair and enforced. That's my vote. :)

Agree too, it can force you to use one pair of word when you set it, but I 
think it should still recognize same as before for settings that are already 
set. Otherwise such update could frustrate a few user that didn't notice this 
change.


-- 
Martin

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