Re: cmdline_file_save accepts file handler instead

Papp Gyozo (VBuster) wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> another simple question or "begging" (depends on your attitude) has
> come to my mind.
> 
> It would be great if the generated config file saver function (or an
> alternative one) could accept FILE* pointer instead of a filename,
> because this way it would be easy to implement `--show-config'
> feature which dumps the current settings e.g to stdout (like. gcc
> -dump* options do)

no problem, this'll be easy to implement :-)

> 
> Background. One of our product has a fairly complex initialization
> procedure (where to lookup for config file(s) -- system default,
> customized user and so on). So it sometimes takes considerably long
> time to figure out the exact configuration with what the program had
> launched.
> 
> Saving to file is OK but in some cases it is preferrable to dump it
> simply to the stdout (ie. in script and such)

that would be useful in many context, I should've thought about it 
myself :-)

by the way, I still haven't started to work on the group options we 
discussed because I'm refactoring the generated code so that there's 
much less duplicated code, so that it will be also easy to implement new 
features (such as the one we discussed about).

I hope to have something ready soon!

thanks again for your feedback!
cheers
	Lorenzo

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