[Opensim-dev] Ini file(s) loading
Melanie
melanie at t-data.com
Mon Mar 9 23:09:40 UTC 2009
And that brings us full circle to my proposal.
There is much sense in a set of files that are used as defaults, and
then overriding settings in specific configuration files.
Melanie
Sean Hennessee wrote:
> I am one of those people that run trunk and update fairly often on 9 different
> OpenSim servers. I suspect I always will be. Having to manually merge two huge
> ini files, on 9 different servers, is a major pain. It would be even worse if I
> had to merge 6 or 8 different medium sized ini files on each of my 9 servers.
> Where they are located is not important to me, but I really would like to have
> an SVN new set of ini files, (or one ini file), with all the latest changes that
> is read first, and a way for me to have a small ini file that I can use for my
> specific settings which will override the default ini settings. That would make
> my life much much easier.
>
> Peace,
> Sean
>
> Jeff Ames wrote:
>>> Just splitting up the file and putting it in config, with all the
>>> comments, would help. And for the SVN update - that is a problem
>>> with any modifications to the tree, not just config. That's what
>>> backups are for. I guess a simple backup/diff tool for config would
>>> be a quick solution...
>>>
>>
>> Just have config/*.ini and let conflicts happen as they come? I kinda
>> agree... If you're updating some application from version 1.0 to 2.0,
>> you expect to have to merge your config changes. I imagine part of
>> the merge problem is just that people are running trunk and updating
>> all the time rather than using the (too infrequent?) tagged releases.
>>
>> I'm +1 on just using config/*.ini directly.
>>
>> Jeff
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