On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 08:38:24PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 00:55:14 +0200 > Oskar Sandberg <oskar at freenetproject.org> wrote: < > > > I'm pretty certain that ipAddress is not commented if it is set while > > running the nodes config procedure. > > Yes, it is. I noticed that a while back, and promptly forgot. I think > that preconfig.sh is writing it, but then freenet.config.Setup is adding > a %... shouldn't the hostname option also have a special-cased > isInstallation ? or am I reading this wrong?
That's just a bug then. I'll fix it. > > The meaning of the % symbol is in the comments at the beginning of the > > config file. > > And it seems to be a generally annoying idea. I suppose that it's > supposed to handle the case where 1) the user didn't change from the > default, and 2) the default changed, so just bring them along... but... > it seems to me that there's got to be some better way to do it. If you know a better way I'm all ears. The situation we had before was not acceptable - we need to be able to change the default values. Previously I had to resort to changing setting names to make such changes have any effect on most users. The only option I can see is to not write unchanged options at all. My general opinion on these matters is that normal users shouldn't have to deal with config files at all. Those that do I think can be expected to read the header comments. -- Oskar Sandberg oskar at freenetproject.org _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
