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

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:28 AM, C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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].

*THANK* you. That makes sense.

> (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 that stuff is atrociously out of date.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!

I'll send a followup there, but I just started a new job, so I'm short
on cycles myself to do it.

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