According to Dan Langille:
> On 2 Aug 2001, at 15:28, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
> > At 4:15 PM -0400 8/2/01, Dan Langille wrote:
> > >But I did not create start.url. Then I ran rundig:
> > >If I create start.url, rundig runs to completion
> >
> > So? What this tells me is that if start.url doesn't exist, htdig
> > doesn't run and so htmerge complains. It probably doesn't run because
> > when the file doesn't exist, start_url is NULL, rather than empty.
> >
> > I don't really see this as a bug, except perhaps the config parser
> > should complain bitterly if you try to include a non-existent file.
>
> Nor did I. And yes, that complaint might help someone someday.
Running htdig with an empty start_url definition may be valid if all you
want to do is recheck the existing documents in the database. It doesn't
make sense for htdig -i, though, so maybe a check could be added for this.
For other programs like htsearch, htnotify, even htmerge/htpurge, it wouldn't
make sense to complain about an empty start_url, as it's not even used.
In the more general case of warnings for non-existant files for any use
of left-quoted file names in attribute settings, the warning should probably
only show up in debugging mode. Certainly for htsearch, you'd want it to
run as silently as possible by default.
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