Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>> There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to store >>> for setup. I'm proposing an Xdefaults-style setup.cfg in >>> /etc/setup. >>> If we compile a list of things to go in there, I could write a >>> parser >>> for it (I don't think it merits yacc, like the one for setup.ini >>> :-D). >> >> Ok, but we need to decide: Is this going to be user-edited, or >> setup-edited? I.e., there is no point in allowing comments, if they >> get removed every time setup re-writes the file. > > It doesn't seem hard to have setup remember the order of options in > the config file (which would also allow it to remember user > comments), so that when we write out the options, we can keep the > order.
But why bother? Max.
