On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 02:20, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> I therefor propose that we rename this file to "config.pl.default", >> and change the scripts to first load config.pl.default, and then load >> config.pl if it exists. config.pl then lives completely outside the >> source tree (should be in .cvsignore) and won't show up in any diffs >> or anything. > > I've used similar tricks elsewhere and find them pretty useful. The > patch looks reasonably sane to someone 101% unfamiliar with our MSVC > stuff (except that I'd get rid of the parentheses in the "do foo unless > -f $file" lines).
You now, that's what I had first. Then I changed it to add the parentheses to make it look like a similar piece of code nearby, written by somebody much more perly than I am. But now that I think of it, it may well be me who wrote that code earlier as well, so that'd no good excuse :-) -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
