Re: [viewvc-users] When and why did "allow_tar" get pulled out?

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> I used to use "allow_tar" in viewvc-1.0.9 to allow tarball
> downloading, to avoid needing to install Subversion clients to access
> test tarballs. This was apparently yanked out at 1.1.0, although the
> help pages still reflect the presence of the "Download tarball"
> option.
> 
> The consistent and confusing labeling of "allow_tar" versus its
> description as "Download tarball" in the documentation was a minor
> issue. But yanking out the utility without updating the documentation
> is... an unpleasant surprise. Why was it pulled? Would it be possible
> to have restored as an option?

It wasn't pulled -- it was merely relocated.  Rather than have allow_markup,
allow_tar and allow_annotate, plus the new allow_checkout and allow_roots
options needed, I unified these into a single new 'allowed_views' option in
the 1.1.0 line.  That little tidbit didn't make it into the release notes,
but is noted in the "Upgrading from 1.0" portion of the "Upgrading HOW-TO"
doc[1].

(Heheh... I just noticed that the example immediately after that portion of
doc errantly still refers to the allow_tar configuration option.  Sheesh.)

As for the online help ... that stuff is atrociously out of date.  I'd
welcome any suggestions you could offer on updating those docs (over on
[email protected], please).  Thanks!

-- C-Mike

[1]
http://viewvc.tigris.org/source/browse/*checkout*/viewvc/trunk/docs/upgrading-howto.html

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Distributed Development On Demand

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