My schedule, 2.3 schedules, and whatnot

Forrest J. Cavalier III mibsoft at mibsoftware.com
Wed Dec 8 14:50:42 UTC 1999


Not sure what happened to my first reply...Never got it back from
the list, so here is a replacement.

> This should really be done like in Squid, i.e. from a single file
> which contains the specification and documentation of all available
> options everything else is generated (including man page, etc).
> Ideally, introducing or obsoleting an inn.conf option would require a
> change in exactly one source file.

Good idea.  I put it into the INN 2.x in February 1998.

http://www.mibsoftware.com/userkt/inn/dev/inn-workers/vol9802/xiu.htm

Dave Hayes even wrote a perl script to support the (pretty
minimal) file parsing and insertion involved.  It was slick,
I think, because it collected all of the code into one file.
I used it.  No one else did.

Somebody removed the capability since then.

- Forrest


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