Am 27.05.2010 21:43, schrieb Sebastian Spaeth: >> general.conf beeing a config which is in the SVN overriding everything is >> bad. >> There is sometimes the need to override something e.g. API servers for >> testing >> without breaking the autoupdate the client. >> >> So there should be some last resort, not in svn, local config read >> from the client. Most of the time it should not exist though. > > +1 from me. I sometimes need that for lowzoom render settings.
The reason a svn controlled general.conf overrides some setings was that some users tended to break the system with bad config choices. The settings in general.conf are those that are more or less critical for the correct functioning of the client, and should not be overridden. OTOH I do agree we need something for special cases. But: For lowzoom I'd like to see changes made in the svn version of general.conf, maybe split the parameters up in minimal margin/maximal margin. For testing there should be a local.conf, overriding general.conf, but the client should very noisily complain if that file is found and used. Maybe even refuse upload, like it does now when the local copy is out of sync with svn. Tip of the day: Did you know "xy mode" doesn't check for svn status anymore? Tip of the day2: Did you know there is some rudimentary testing script that can automatically visually compare font rendering and report errors if the rendering of the test sentence doesn't look as expected? I'm probably going to code some warning sometime next week, along with adding local.conf at the end of config files to read, unless one of you beats me to it. -- Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie Bremen - 53.0901°N 8.7868°E
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