Karl Fogel wrote:
> cmpilato@collab.net writes:
>> We specifically made a config-for-all so that not every client
>> would have to implement the exact same things over and over again,
>> like proxy values. That just puts a burder on client developers.
>> So I think we should let all the client use our configuration
>> files, and just encourage the developers of those clients to
>> protect their client-specific stuff with some sort of
>> namespace-protected sections, like [rapidsvn-general] or
>> [gsvn-general].
>
> I think that's what Nuutti is allowing for. The idea is that our
> library interfaces takes a context baton object.
>
> One way to fill that object is to call
> svn_config_read_config(&object) or whatever.
>
> But another way is for some GUI client, say, to have its *own*
> mechanism for filling the object. However, such a client is under
> no obligation to fill the object its own way. It is free to just
> call svn_config_read_config(&object) like our client does.
>
> Whatever way it gets filled, the object is then passed down to the
> client layer. If you pass NULL, you get default behaviors.
>
> Make sense?
Perfectly :-) This is indeed what I mean.
-- Naked
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Received on Fri Oct 18 01:58:47 2002