Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Proposed programs' header skeleton

[Olivier D. <dr...@sh...>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:55:15PM -0500, Joseph F. Ryan wrote:
> That log is added by CVS... its there for a reason.

I know. However I don't see why it could not be added to CHANGELOG instead
of PerlProgram.pl... I just think its place is not in PerlProgram.pl
because that'll keep away a lot of newbies from using the scripts (in my
opinion).

Here's how I see it: in a year from now, after several other revisions,
the log at the beginning of each program is going to be *several pages
long*. Not only is this going to be annoying for anyone wanting to
modify it but it'll also be a major hit to the user friendliness we're
trying to achieve. If I had the choice between two programs (most people
don't really see or look for security first) my first pick would be the
program which is easy to configure (ie. where it's specified clearly
what settings I change and what I don't change), and the one where I
don't have to hit pagedown 10 times before I get to the configuration
-> we're driving people back to MWS which defeats the purpose of this
project.

Anyone else has an idea on this? Tell me if I'm being stupid :o)

-Oli

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