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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TMDA Configuration Variables reference
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 11:12:46 -0600
From: "Jason R. Mastaler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

"David T. Ashley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> a)Mechanically maintain consistency.  For example, you might tag the
> information in Defaults.py so that a program can extract the info
> and repackage it for your HTML file.

I guess you missed the following in my message:

  ``Thanks to Tim for the Defaults.py --> HTML parser.''

So yes, the HTML file is auto-generated from a Makefile making it
effortless to maintain.

> Now that you've created the HTML, you might want to delete the
> sections in the .py file.

No, because the parser uses the comments in Defaults.py to build the
HTML.

BTW, the reason this was done is that users have a tendency to not
read Defaults.py leading to unnecessary questions on tmda-users.
Perhaps this is because it contains lots of code intermixed with the
comments.  This was a way to document all the variables in a more
approachable manner.

It also allows us to point to a URL for a variable on the -users list
instead of always saying "See Defaults.py".

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