CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

Felix Kühling fxkuehl at gmx.de
Mon Jan 31 14:11:26 PST 2005


Am Montag, den 31.01.2005, 16:08 -0500 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 21:10 +0100, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> > Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 17:41 -0800, Felix Kuehling wrote:
> > > 
> > >>  	- Updated DisableCOB: 3D requires COB, default value is "off", which
> > >>  	  means that the COB is enabled.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > If you just called the option "COB", "DisableCOB" would be one of the
> > > many cases handled automatically by the option parser.
> > 
> > Hmm, I think the parser can only handle "No" but not "Disable". 
> 
> Indeed, I thought it handled "Enable" and "Disable" as well, but you're
> right.
> 
> Still, IMHO negative option names are just wrong. :)

Generally I'd agree. However, this option has been around for a while so
I'd rather leave it as it is. Especially because renaming the option may
cause lockups on systems that need it.

> 
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