Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/etc
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 04/09/2007 20:14:05
On 09/04/2007, at 20:03, matthew green wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:42:42PM +0000, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
>>
>> Module Name: src
>> Committed By: mishka
>> Date: Mon Apr 2 12:42:42 UTC 2007
>>
>> Modified Files:
>> src/etc: wscons.conf
>> src/etc/rc.d: wscons
>>
>> Log Message:
>> Provide yet more functionality to wscons.conf's "setvar" (see
>> examples in the wscons.conf). Now, you have to specify wscons
>> control device and put variable name and parameter on separate
>> fields.
>
> Can you please update wscons.conf(5) accordingly?
>
> I had a "hard" time figuring out why setvar didn't work as
> before and
> why what the manual page mentioned did not work.
>
>
> is there no way to support the old style usage as well? it seems
> poor choice to break a configuration file format...
It looks like it'd be easy to check if there is just one parameter to
setvar and assume the old behavior in that case. Maybe issue a
warning in that case to mention that such syntax is obsolete and will
be removed in the future?
--
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>