Re: [htdig-dev] defaults.cc

[Brian W. <bw...@st...>]

At 11:43 11/11/2002, Lachlan Andrew wrote:
>Greetings Brian,
>
>The latest version of  defaults.cc  that I
>have is at <http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/staff/lha/defaults.cc>.
>It includes all of my earlier changes, plus some
>forward-ported 3.1.6 attributes.

Well, I ran it through my defaults.xml builder and
( much to my chagrin! ) it didn't work straight up.

I have sheepishly attached a slightly adjusted
version of the builder.....

>On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:35, Brian White wrote:
> > At 17:44 8/11/2002, Gabriele Bartolini wrote:
> > > we'd need to change the Configuration.[h,cc] files
> > Those changes are all in the patch I supplied.
>While we're changing  Configuration.cc,  what do people
>think about issuing a warning if an attribute is not
>found, rather than silently using the "default_value"
>argument? That would remind developers to add the
>attribute to  defaults.xml  and avoid having default
>values scattered throughout the code...

On the face of it, I think this is a good idea, but
it would need to be carefully done...

Brian