On 18 Sep 2012, at 12:56, Brett Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18 September 2012 21:46, Shaun McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 18 Sep 2012, at 12:39, Brett Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 17 September 2012 02:57, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: >> I didn't know that it works without a state file at all! >> >> If no state file is available, it will initialise itself to the latest >> sequence. In other words, on first run it will download the latest state >> file and exit without making any changes. >> > > I'm thinking that this is a poor default, and a better default would be to > use a state file for the current planet file, possibly going as far as adding > a comment to state that if was auto generated, and include the previous plant > date as an alternative. > > It seemed like a good idea at the time :-) > > I'm not keen on automatically setting it to planet timestamps. That would > require knowledge of the planet server layout, and assumes that the data is > being downloaded from the planet server. Currently the only URL required is > the URL of the replication files, and that is defined in the config file. > > How about aborting with an error message stating that it can't run without > being initialised with a state file? That's a fail safe approach that avoids > silently missing data.
Aborting with an error message is a good idea. More importantly the information on how to work out what should go in the state file is important. Maybe including a link to a wiki page with further detailed information. Shaun
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