According to Geoff Hutchison:
> Chalk this one up to a misunderstanding, a lack of documentation and
> my head being in other things recently. I'm a bit worried about
> merging in a couple largish patches to the same areas of code. So as
> I said, I thought it could have been merging all those patches
> together.
Could be. That's what beta testing is for, though. :)
> >I don't think Rajendra's example forms and config file made it into the
> >CVS tree either.
>
> No, I'm not quite sure what to do with them... They clearly need to
> go in the documentation, and some parts of them need to go into the
> default conf file. But what do we want to do with the rest: put them
> in contrib? Well, they're not really contrib, they're actually part
> of the code. Do we put them in installdir? If so, where should they
> go?
I was thinking contrib/examples, but yes, some of that stuff will have to
go in the docs. His patches are part of the code, but using multiple
databases is totally optional. The code should work with existing config
files, but his example config files for multiple collections are, IMHO,
contributed examples.
> One of the recommendations from Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who
> did the FreeBSD "port" for 3.1.5 is for the installdir forms and
> config files.
> > We do that on a lot of ports. I would stay away from .orig since that's
> >what 'patch' uses. We generally use .default for files that you can just
> >copy over and they will work as is, and .sample for example files that
> >provide a starting place like the htdig.conf file. It helps a lot,
> >especially in cases where the user has to configure files that could be
> >deleted by a new install or (in our case) removed when the user deletes
> >the package.
>
> I don't know--would users be confused if we installed a few example
> config files?
If there's only a few, and they're clearly labelled .sample, I don't have
a problem with this.
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