On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:02:11AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >I just checked in some preliminary changes to setup.exe option parsing. >I modified it so that all saved options are now stored in a single file >"/etc/setup/settings.rc". Options are retrieved via a UserSettings >"get" method. As a stopgap measure, the old single-file method is used >when an option is missing from settings.rc but all parsing of this file >is limited to one function rather than in a few different places. > >I haven't done exhaustive testing on this. It seems to work ok but I'll >do more checking tomorrow. At some point I'll add the saving of the chooser >screen geometry. That was more-or-less what predicated this rewrite. I >didn't like the fact that every class opened its own file and did its own >parsing of the file; I didn't want to write another parser/generator for >saving screen geometry. > >Anyway, please consider setup.exe to be unstable right now. The CVS >trunk is not ready for prime time.
Sorry. On rereading, I see that "option parsing" was incorrect terminology. I'm just talking about "saved settings". cgf
