I think his point was, _what_ determines if its a misconfiguration? It can't be Solr because, like he said, a plugin may require it. If there is no such plugin, then what shall be the handler of it properly? nothing....ergo its ignored.
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:34 +0200, Andreas Jung wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Hostetter wrote: > > : right - and Solr should not swallow errors in the configuration :-) > > > > If you have an error in a *known* config declaration, solr will complain > > about it -- but solr can't complain just because you declare extra stuff > > in your conig files that it doens't know anything about -- some other > > plugin might care about it (or it might be there because you wanted > > special syntax for your own documentation purposes) > > I don't care about if this config is a core configuration or a > configuration of some plugin. Such kind of misconfiguration should be > handled properly - this is the minimum one can expect. > > - -aj > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkvfCQ4ACgkQCJIWIbr9KYz22QCfeVNIwJt0f5+XfnV1qvsZ0HJm > He0AoL5lIoEiUyhUINXpA2rcDB8bgsAy > =skdf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----