On Thursday 09 January 2003 10:30, Ted Stresen-Reuter wrote: > I've reviewed, briefly, both files mentioned. I'm not sure what their > purpose is in terms of the whole project. [deleted] Why is there > both a defaults.cc and defaults.xml document?
Their purpose is to be a central place where the options, default values and documentation are all given, both for the executables to use and for people to read. So far, defaults.cc has been that central place, but this has the drawback of bloating the executable with all of the descriptions, which aren't used. Brian White has written some scripts to produce both a bare-bones defaults.cc and attrs.html et al. from defaults.xml (and to generate defaults.xml from the current defaults.cc). Once these have passed the test of time, defaults.xml will become the authoritative file. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
