Re: Using Settings

On 02/04/2014 05:54 PM, Anne Ogborn wrote:
> 
>> 16 ?- set_setting(http:prefix, '/crane').
>> ERROR: setting `prefix' does not exist
> 
> It seems to be defined in ClioPatria's parms.pl.  At some point, the overall
> idea was to rebase a server by changing the HTTP path alias for root.  This
> change never materialized.  So, the above only works for ClioPatria.
> Otherwise
> you must define http:prefix.  It is a bit of a mess :-(  Possibly the right
> solution is to add it to library(http/http_path) and decide we won't change
> this further?
> 
>     Cheers --- Jan
> 
> As an alternative, we could remove it from the documentation and rewrite
> those places to suggest rebasing root

In a sense, that would be more consistent.  On the other hand, being able to
rebase the root is quite common and using the setting library has its
advantages
here.  Still a it unsure ...

	--- Jan