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Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?


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
>>>>>>> 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 think it merits yacc, like
>>>>>>> the one for setup.ini :-D).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ok, but we need to decide: Is this going to be user-edited, or
>>>>>> setup-edited? I.e., there is no point in allowing comments, if
>>>>>> they get removed every time setup re-writes the file.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It doesn't seem hard to have setup remember the order of options
>>>>> in the config file (which would also allow it to remember user
>>>>> comments), so that when we write out the options, we can keep the
>>>>> order.
>>>> 
>>>> But why bother?
>>>> Max.
>>> 
>>> To make the file user-editable.
>> 
>> More code / little benefit. The average user won't ever need to edit
>> this. The non-average user can cope with the lines being forced into
>> particular order.
>> Max.
> 
> Max,
> 
> I'm less concerned about the lines themselves, and more about
> associating comments with lines.  How would you like it if you edited
> the file, put some comments in it, and then found that *all* your
> comments were, for example, bunched up at the start of the script? 
> Either we disallow comments, or we keep the order, IMO.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

My vote.


Max.


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