[Opensim-dev] Autocreated OpenSim.ini

[Alan M Webb]

Yes, the nini merge is what I was talking about. It seems like the natural 
way to do it to me. Any approach that doesn't require a code change to add 
or change a default must be better. 

Best regards
Alan
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Stefan Andersson <stefan at tribalmedia.se> 
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Uh. Another approach would be to actually use the 'merge' functionality of 
nini so that we could have the .example as a fallback defaults file.

(It should then probably not be called '.example' but rather '.default')

So, by just adding another line of code, we'd have opensim.ini as an 
optional local override of entries in opensim.default - then we can change 
and add to opensim.default, and peoples local changes are kept untouched. 
The startup can create an empty opensim.ini (with just a comment with an 
url to a wiki page or something) if there is none on start.

(All this provided the opensim.ini is actually parsed by nini, but if it 
isn't, it should be)

Best,
/Stefan




Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:57:24 +0100
From: DrScofield at xyzzyxyzzy.net
To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Autocreated OpenSim.ini

Alan M Webb wrote: 

I think that's a great idea. I was pondering it myself; I think the code 
generated file approach is absolutely the wrong way to do it. 

Given the merging capabilities of the config mechanisms couldn't we set it 
up to merge startup.ini (if it exists) after the example .ini? That way we 
would get overrides if they exist, and defaults if they don't without 
doing any conditional copying or munging of files. The startup.ini can 
then be written out by the config mechanism if it didn't already exist, or 
if the configuration has been changed. 
that sounds like a rather good idea!

    cheers, 
    dirk

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