Fwd: [htdig-dev] defaults.cc

[Geoff H. <ghu...@ws...>]

It's probably my fault if this didn't end up in the CVS. I'll take a 
look later this morning. But AFAIK, this is the latest version of the 
defaults.xml "builder."

-Geoff

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Brian White <bw...@st...>
> Date: Sun Nov 10, 2002  08:05:48  PM US/Central
> To: lh...@ee...
> Cc: htd...@li...
> Subject: Re: [htdig-dev] defaults.cc
>
> 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