Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>> On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: >>> >>>> Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>>>> There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to >>>>> store for setup. I'm proposing an Xdefaults-style setup.cfg in >>>>> /etc/setup. If we compile a list of things to go in there, I >>>>> could write a parser for it (I don't think it merits yacc, like >>>>> the one for setup.ini :-D). >>>> >>>> Ok, but we need to decide: Is this going to be user-edited, or >>>> setup-edited? I.e., there is no point in allowing comments, if they >>>> get removed every time setup re-writes the file. >>> >>> It doesn't seem hard to have setup remember the order of options in >>> the config file (which would also allow it to remember user >>> comments), so that when we write out the options, we can keep the >>> order. >> >> But why bother? >> Max. > > To make the file user-editable.
More code / little benefit. The average user won't ever need to edit this. The non-average user can cope with the lines being forced into particular order. Max.