I'm pretty sure last time I turned them "off" some were still made.
yes i know what the bug report and the like, i think i griped about it on list. and resorted to a makefile that deletes them. Hardkrash On Jan 19, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On Monday 19 January 2009 18:56:08 Steven Michalske wrote: >> On Jan 17, 2009, at 7:56 AM, Ales Hvezda wrote: >>>> Currently, running any gEDA suite program leaves behind a log >>>> file in >>>> the current working directory. I would like to change the default >>>> to not >>>> generating log files, so that I (and other users who use the >>>> default >>>> configuration) don't end up with gschem.log and gnetlist.log files >>>> scattered over their entire filesystem. Any objections? >>> >>> No objections, but the first user who posts a mysterious error >>> report with no information (where the clarifying info would be in >>> the >>> disabled log file), you get the honor of playing 20 questions and >>> telling >>> them how to enable the log file and dealing with all the whining >>> which >>> will result. >> >> how about an option that turns them off? >> >> but default them to on, so that a an experienced geda user can turn >> them off but the new users have the clutter/tmp dir. > > There already is such an option. However, because I like to eat my own > dogfood, I almost use gEDA with the default settings. If the default > settings > are annoying me (and it seems I'm not the only one who it annoys in > this > case), I investigate how they can be improved. > > This way I can help make sure that gEDA is user-friendly "out of the > box". > "Our defaults suck but you can configure it easily!!!!111" is a lame > excuse, > IMHO. > > Peter > > -- > Peter Brett > > Electronic Systems Engineer > Integral Informatics Ltd > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
