Re: CVS commit: src/etc

["Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 09/04/2007, at 20:03, matthew green wrote:

>    On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:42:42PM +0000, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
> > Module Name:    src
> > Committed By:   mishka
> > Date:           Mon Apr  2 12:42:42 UTC 2007
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >         src/etc: wscons.conf
> >         src/etc/rc.d: wscons
> >
> > Log Message:
> > Provide yet more functionality to wscons.conf's "setvar" (see
> > examples in the wscons.conf). Now, you have to specify wscons
> > control device and put variable name and parameter on separate
> > fields.
>
>    Can you please update wscons.conf(5) accordingly?
>
>    I had a "hard" time figuring out why setvar didn't work as  
> before and
>    why what the manual page mentioned did not work.
>
>
> is there no way to support the old style usage as well?  it seems
> poor choice to break a configuration file format...

It looks like it'd be easy to check if there is just one parameter to  
setvar and assume the old behavior in that case.  Maybe issue a  
warning in that case to mention that such syntax is obsolete and will  
be removed in the future?

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost>