Status updates for feature freeze

[Kevin E Martin]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:04:08AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> Around 12 o'clock on Aug 6, Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= wrote:
> 
> > >    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? :)
> 
> I think it's a reasonable idea, but it may be "hard" to precisely match 
> the boolean semantics (which permit all kinds of weird stuff); this 
> section probably needs special parsing to allow arbitrary extension names
> and not a fixed table of boolean variables.

That is correct, but I think it should be possible to emulate the
boolean semantics, which should be fairly straightforward to change.
It's on my to do list, but it may take a while to get to this task.  If
anyone has time to add them, please submit a patch.