On 1/16/09, Martin Paljak <mar...@paljak.pri.ee> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.bar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I would prefer you discuss changing defaults and behavior in the list
>  > before you commit anything.
>
> These are not functional behavior changes but "common sense" fixes to
>  things that currently don't behave as they were first implemented.
>  Please comment if you see it differently or if I broke something.

I just believe that changing a default worth discussion...

>  > Also, please don't commit anything to build system without asking me
>  > first, as I think I am more familiar with this subject than you.
>
> Right, thanks for improving and reminding. The iconv detection was
>  simple yet it worked and was isolated well enough.

Now it also compiles under win* platform... Please remember that it is
never simple... :)

>  The goal is (and was, long time ago already) to let OpenSC work
>  without a configuration file. The configuration file used to be an
>  example that was distributed with source but somehow it became a
>  necessity that gets installed by default and contains operating values
>  which should already have sane defaults in the code.

Great.

>  One major remaining configuration file option, that brings havoc if
>  not set, is profile_dir. The included patch creates a #define to get
>  rid of it but I really don't get the "eval eval eval eval" thing :)
>  I'm sure there is a more correct way of doing it, as currently
>  pkgdatadir and full_pkgdatadir have no direct relation...

I will take care of this.

>  There are still some  options in the example configuration file (one
>  distributed with Ubuntu/Debian by default) that differ from code level
>  settings:
>  hide_empty_tokens (yes in config, no in code)
>  use_caching (true in config, false in code)
>
>  I don't have any strong opinions about these two, but they should be
>  sorted out as well - so that there would be no functional tunables
>  contradicting code level settings in the *example* configuration file.
>  My suggestion would be changing the example configuration files to
>  state the code defaults.

Yes, the code defaults seems OK.

Thanks,
Alon.
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