On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:05:08AM -0500, The Editor wrote: > On 1/30/07, The Editor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2). In the process, the thought crossed my mind we do have two options > for dealing with hierarchical config files. Currently, if you are at > Kingdom-Animal-Canine, it looks for Kingdom-Animal-Canine.php first, > then Kingdom-Animal.php, and then Kingdom.php (and then default.php). > As soon as it finds one, it uses it and stops its search. So only one > file is ever used (much like the group attributes pages). > > It could be rewritten however (a bit of a pain) to include if it > exists Kingdom.php first, then include Kingdom-Animal.php and then > Kingdom-Animal-Canine.php third, each one overwriting any settings in > earlier ones. This might be more what people expect, and makes some > things easier. That is, with the current system you have to repeat > config settings in child config files. I hesitate to do this however, > as I can it making debugging problems far more complex. And at least > for starters, we should perhaps keep it simple...
Yes. the latter is what I would have expected/hoped for with hierarchical groups, otherwise there doesn't seem much point, since you don't gain from higher-up settings if you have to repeat them for every lower-down config file. Kathryn Andersen -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <http://www.katspace.com> / \ | \_.--.*/ | GenFicCrit mailing list <http://www.katspace.com/gen_fic_crit/> v | ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
