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Re: setup.exe option parsing in flux
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:04:25 -0400
- Subject: Re: setup.exe option parsing in flux
- References: <20090628040211.GA31226@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:02:11AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I just checked in some preliminary changes to setup.exe option parsing.
>I modified it so that all saved options are now stored in a single file
>"/etc/setup/settings.rc". Options are retrieved via a UserSettings
>"get" method. As a stopgap measure, the old single-file method is used
>when an option is missing from settings.rc but all parsing of this file
>is limited to one function rather than in a few different places.
>
>I haven't done exhaustive testing on this. It seems to work ok but I'll
>do more checking tomorrow. At some point I'll add the saving of the chooser
>screen geometry. That was more-or-less what predicated this rewrite. I
>didn't like the fact that every class opened its own file and did its own
>parsing of the file; I didn't want to write another parser/generator for
>saving screen geometry.
>
>Anyway, please consider setup.exe to be unstable right now. The CVS
>trunk is not ready for prime time.
Sorry. On rereading, I see that "option parsing" was incorrect
terminology. I'm just talking about "saved settings".
cgf