And that brings us full circle to my proposal. There is much sense in a set of files that are used as defaults, and then overriding settings in specific configuration files.
Melanie Sean Hennessee wrote: > I am one of those people that run trunk and update fairly often on 9 > different > OpenSim servers. I suspect I always will be. Having to manually merge two > huge > ini files, on 9 different servers, is a major pain. It would be even worse if > I > had to merge 6 or 8 different medium sized ini files on each of my 9 servers. > Where they are located is not important to me, but I really would like to > have > an SVN new set of ini files, (or one ini file), with all the latest changes > that > is read first, and a way for me to have a small ini file that I can use for > my > specific settings which will override the default ini settings. That would > make > my life much much easier. > > Peace, > Sean > > Jeff Ames wrote: >>> Just splitting up the file and putting it in config, with all the >>> comments, would help. And for the SVN update - that is a problem >>> with any modifications to the tree, not just config. That's what >>> backups are for. I guess a simple backup/diff tool for config would >>> be a quick solution... >>> >> >> Just have config/*.ini and let conflicts happen as they come? I kinda >> agree... If you're updating some application from version 1.0 to 2.0, >> you expect to have to merge your config changes. I imagine part of >> the merge problem is just that people are running trunk and updating >> all the time rather than using the (too infrequent?) tagged releases. >> >> I'm +1 on just using config/*.ini directly. >> >> Jeff >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensim-dev mailing list >> Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev >> >> > > -- > > Sean Hennessee > mailto:s...@uci.edu > http://www.nacs.uci.edu/~sean > Central Computing Support > Network & Academic Computing Services > UC Irvine > (949)824-8225 Office > (949)293-5224 Cell > > > ... . .- -. / .... . -. -. . ... ... . . > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
