Re: User preferences

On 26 Feb 2005 at 19:29, Manuel Holtgrewe wrote:

> > No. That is not discussed here. 
> > The discussion was floating about loading several, say defaults, without 
> > specifying a method to keep them apart.
> > As far as the API of Conf: is concerned you can't tell if a retrieved 
>  > conf_value is factory_default or else. There is NO difference.
> 
> Yes, that is true. And I think that is a good thing: It is and should be 
> transparent. We could - however - add an optional parameter to "get" and 
> "set" that explicitely specify the configuration level to get/set from/to.
> 
> I could not see from your previous posts that you are against that. 
> Explain me why, please.
> 
I never did consider that. It's not clear to me that it is needed, too.
But maybe BC should use PEAR's config package.
That's tested *and* is available *and* matches your requirements better.

wim niemans

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