Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to store for setup. I'm proposing an Xdefaults-style setup.cfg in /etc/setup. If we compile a

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to store for setup. I'm proposing an Xdefaults-style setup.cfg in

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to store for setup. I'm

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 03:54, Max Bowsher wrote: Either we disallow comments, or we keep the order, IMO. ^^^ My vote. Ok, we are starting down a rabbit hole. Whomever puts the time in can decide whether it's user editable or not. I've already listed the

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 07:39, Robert Collins wrote: I'll add another incentive: I'll accept 'progress' patches, that refactor the code to use the emerging framework, as long as the current *behaviour* doesn't change. (i.e. we still use last-mirror etc). The first patch that starts to use

RE: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-09 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Max Bowsher Sent: Sun, Mar 09, 2003 8:43a To: John Morrison; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ? John Morrison wrote: BTW, apart from colours, what would you store? Whether

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-09 Thread Max Bowsher
linda w (cyg) wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Max Bowsher Sent: Sun, Mar 09, 2003 8:43a To: John Morrison; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ? John Morrison wrote: BTW, apart from colours, what would you

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-09 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 16:38:57 - Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to store for setup. I'm proposing an Xdefaults-style setup.cfg in /etc/setup. If we compile a list of things to go in there, I could

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 07:08, Michael A Chase wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 16:38:57 - Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to store for setup. I'm proposing an Xdefaults-style setup.cfg in /etc/setup.

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 07:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 07:49:27AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Also, I'd prefer /etc/setup.rc rather that /etc/setup/setup.cfg. Wouldn't /etc/setuprc be somewhat more consistent with existing unix practices? Sure. I'm happy with that

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to store for setup. I'm proposing an Xdefaults-style setup.cfg in /etc/setup. If we compile a list of things to go in there, I could write a parser for it (I don't

RE: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-09 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 07:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 07:49:27AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Also, I'd prefer /etc/setup.rc rather that /etc/setup/setup.cfg. Wouldn't /etc/setuprc be somewhat more consistent with existing unix practices? Sure. I'm happy

RE: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: On Mon, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:49:27AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Also, I'd prefer /etc/setup.rc rather that /etc/setup/setup.cfg. Wouldn't /etc/setuprc be somewhat more

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-09 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: On Mon, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:49:27AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Also, I'd prefer /etc/setup.rc rather that /etc/setup/setup.cfg. Wouldn't /etc/setuprc be somewhat more

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 07:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 07:49:27AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Also, I'd prefer /etc/setup.rc rather that /etc/setup/setup.cfg.

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 13:11, Elfyn McBratney wrote: How about [/etc/]setup.conf ? it follows the (other) unix convention of configuration file naming. Thank you. That works for everyone I think. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. signature.asc

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:23:06PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 13:11, Elfyn McBratney wrote: How about [/etc/]setup.conf ? it follows the (other) unix convention of configuration file naming. Thank you. That works for everyone I think. Yup. cgf