Re: [viewvc-users] Configurable config file location?

On 07/19/2010 04:26 PM, John Beranek wrote:
> My thought was that I'd change the code to allow the config file
> location to be overridden by an environment variable. Looking at the
> code it looks like there's already some kind of support for this. Is it
> true that I only need to change all the places that define CONF_PATHNAME
> to define it as "None"?
> 
> If so, I could then set VIEWVC_CONF_PATHNAME in the Apache config, and
> have multiple "viewvc.conf" files, one for each site. This would
> certainly be an advance.

Yup.  You can do that today.

> _However_, what would be really lovely to be able to do in a
> "viewvc-newyork.conf" would be something like:
> 
> ==================================================================
> include "viewvc-common.conf"
> 
> [config_section]
> variable_a = blah
> variable_b = blah
> ==================================================================
> 
> Unfortunately I'm not sure the ".ini" file format has any syntax for any
> such usage. I could always do this myself with the C preprocessor, but I
> don't think I really want to add the burden of having a Makefile that
> utilises the C preprocessor.

Yeah, I don't believe that the .ini file format allows for that.

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