> % is simply a different kind of comment. It indicates that the setup > program knows about this option, but that it should be set to the node > default because the user has not expressed a preference.
... I realise this. However it is not just a 'comment', but rather an indication that the setting defines a default value. The value of "%xyz=abc" in the conf file therefore indicates nothing more than "there is a config parameter called xyz, which has a default value defined within fred, and currently fred is using that default". It isn't a comment, as it defines useful a config value (assuming I am correct in thinking that *all* config parameters appear in the conf file, either as "xyz=abc" or "%xyz=abc"), and it isn't a config value as the actual value currently used by the node cannot be determined from parsing the config file! (As an aside, therefore, actually defining that value *within* the conf file seems a bit redundant, i.e. "%mainport.Port=8888" might be better expressed as just "%mainport.Port=") > The important thing is that a setup program MUST comment out or not > write options that do not need to be overridden. Forget setup programs for the moment... my original message was more general. If an application wants to talk to fproxy, the recommended way (according to the list archives :-) is to look for mainport.Port= in the conf file, but if the line is %mainport.Port=8888 it can mean one of two things: 1. mainport.Port=8888 2. mainport.Port!=8888 and fred's default mainport.Port has changed internally but the conf file value was never updated So, as originally stated, how to find the *actual* mainport.Port used by fred in such a case? And in general terms how to achieve this for any %'d conf value. The only solution I could think of was to query fred for all its default values and parse that file too. The only way of obtaining a defaults file would be to "freenet.config.Setup freenet.defaults --silent". I just wanted confirmation that this was the case and that there wasn't an easier way :-) d _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
