Status updates for feature freeze

Mike A. Harris mharris at www.linux.org.uk
Fri Aug 6 07:38:15 PDT 2004


Stuart Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Kevin E Martin wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>>   A new section named "Extensions" was added to the configuration file:
>>>>>
>>>>>       Section "Extensions"
>>>>>           Option "EXTENSION-NAME-1" "Enable"
>>>>>           Option "EXTENSION-NAME-2" "Disable"
>>>>>       EndSection
>>>>>
>>>>>   Each Option line lists one extension and a value (either "enable" or
>>>>>   "disable").  The value is not case sensitive, but the name of the
>>>>>   extension is (just as with the command-line options).
>>>>
>>>>Why not use the standard boolean option semantics instead?
>>>
>>>Anyone? :)
>>
>>We can make it anything that people want since these are just free form
>>strings.  I'll add "on"/"off" and "true"/"false" as synonyms for
>>"enable"/"disable".  Are there any others that people think should be
>>added?
> 
> 
> I think the original; question might havbe been should we be _not_
> adding new words since there are already words in the vocabulary of the
> config file that can be used. It seems like this might cause less
> confusion to be more consistant.

Agreed, the config file boolean operators already support:

True/False
Yes/No
Option/No-option

It's best to just use these IMHO.


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