[jifty-devel] Re: [Jifty-commit] r2031 - wifty/trunk/etc

[Jesse Vincent]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:25:23AM -0500, Henry Baragar wrote:
> On Thursday, October 19 2006 05:40 pm, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:37:28PM -0400, Henry Baragar wrote:
> > > On Thursday, October 19 2006 03:55 pm, Nelson Elhage wrote:
> > > > Also, for things like this, you can use the site_config.yml file, also
> > > > located in the etc/ directory -- any configuration options located
> > > > there will override ones set in config.yml, so you can have custom
> > > > local setups without worrying about accidentally committing them.
> > >
> > > Does this feature exist in version 0.609120, or just in svn?
> >
> > It goes all the way back past .051225 ;) Back to when I had jury duty
> > sometime during the summer of '05.
> >
> 
> Now that I am back from OOPSLA (where I heard the first half of Audrey's 
> talk), I have had time to investigate this.
> 
> I found the documentation in Jifty::Config, but not in etc/config.yml.
> 
> I propose that the following lines be added to the distributed etc/config.yml 
> file:
> 
>   SiteConfig: etc/site_config.yml
>   TestConfig: etc/test_config.yml
>   VendorConfig: etc/vendor_config.yml
> 
> That way, other Jifty newbies can avoid the couple of hours I spent trying to 
> figure out if this feature is present and how to use it.

Rather than hardcoding it into the generated configuration file (You may
have guessed by now that I don't like to hardcode things that fall
through sanely, what about adding a comment to the generated
configuration file with a pointer to the documentation?

Best,
Jesse


> Regards,
> Henry
> 
> 
> > > Henry
> > >
> > > > - Nelson
> > >
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