toad wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:09:39PM -0600, David Sowder (Zothar) wrote: > >> toad wrote: >> >>> Why should a client care about WithDefaults ? >>> >>> >> This way the client knows what all the settings are set to without >> having to know anything special about Fred's current thoughts on what >> the defaults are. >> > > Sure, so always show all of them? > Could; I guess the idea is that you can also get an exact copy of freenet.ini as well. >>> Also, clients should set one or two settings to change, not the whole >>> lot; there may be other changes going on in parallel. >>> >>> >> I believe the approach I used will set anywhere from one to all of the >> settings at once, depending on the needs of the client. I tested it by >> changing my node's name without providing any other items. >> > > Hmmm. So it will. Cool. > > The client also needs to be able to get the defaults, short and long > descriptions, whether a setting is expert etc, although the existing > code provides for the needs of most clients. > I haven't quite sorted how I want to do the defaults, short/long descriptions. Feel free to comment/hack.
Including the defaults would probably make withDefaults useless though... :)
