[CF-Devel] savebed feature is done

[Mark Wedel]

Andreas Vogl wrote:
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      - The feature can be disabled in "include/config.h", in case that
     
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        someone doesn´t like it. (Per default it is enabled)
     
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      When there are no objections I´ll put it on cvs very soon.
     
     
 This is a more generic note and just not to Andreas:

 I know it has been the default for a long time to put various features in
config.h.  However, please try to also add a command line option and not have
the code be compile time dependant (If this is already done in this case, my
apologies).

 When I check in the metaserver changes, I have also added a 'settings' file
which sets in lib which can be used to control most of this even without command
line options.  Command line options still take precedence over the settings
file.

 I really want to try and get rid as much compile time dependent code as
possible.  This reduces bugs (as that seemingly unused function that you delete
will now result in immediate linkage errors and not when the first time to
switch config.h finds the error), and also makes binary distributions that much
more friendly/possible.

 Right now, for many of the options, someone who grabs a binary package is
basically at the whim of whatever flags were used in config.h to compile the
executable.

 Having command line options/settings file also makes it easier to debug
problems with these non default behaviours - instead of having to recompile the
code, just insert the appropriate run-time switch, and away you go.