I recommend a mixture of the following two solutions: On 6 Jun 2018, at 5:05pm, Roger Binns <rog...@rogerbinns.com> wrote:
> That is why I advocate a web site where the user (un)ticks what they > want, and the web site provides a correctly configured download. 6 Jun 2018, at 5:24pm, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > A local tool which makes it easy to configure sqlite from local files sounds > useful but depending on a "web site" (baby-bird model) does not sound good to > me. There is already far too much dependence on what what happens to get > served up at the time and too much dependence on a live connection to the > "Internet" with a naive expectation what what was produced yesterday will > continue to be produced tomorrow. To mix them, you put one configuration on the web. The current one (call it "most useful for most people") is fine. This configuration can be changed by editing one file. For a C project this would be a "sqlite3config.h" file with lots of "#define" lines. This file has nothing in except for configuration settings and some (but not long and exhaustive) comments on what they do. No macros or function definitions. Experts can read the documentation in the file and set the definitions themselves. But you also put up an online configuration web page, which works using JavaScript. The web page has GUI features up top: popup menus, checkboxes, radio-buttons, whatever. At the bottom of the page is a text field containing the entire contents for an ".h" file which configures the compilation according to those settings. You can change the GUI settings and see how that changes the file in real time. It's up to the user to copy that text and past it into a new "sqlite3config.h" file or whatever it is. Here's the good part: because the web page works using just JavaScript (rather than PHP, ASP, node, whatever) you can include a copy of it with the distribution and any user can run it in their favourite browser without needing internet access, or perhaps on a smartphone. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
