RE: desparately trying to get pxe-bootversionofpxesworking...

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 18:58, Mitch (WebCob) wrote:
> > Congratulations.
> > 
> [Mitch says:] Now on to refining and documenting ;-)
> 
> A question for you - how do you feel about self-documenting config files?
Yes, it is possible. But you first have to find the config files ;-)
> 
> Courier for example provides config files of the form:
> 
> #Set options as indicate in selection list - default is shown
> #boolean or on / off values are indicated by 1 or 0
> 
> #RDP_ASK_ENABLED='1'
> #If enabled, ask the user to confirm default values for RDP_SERVER_NAME,
> #RDP_COLOR_DEPTH, and ?
> RDP_ASK_ENABLED='0'
> 
> #RDP_ATTACH_TO_CONSOLE='0'
> #RDP_CLIENT_HOSTNAME=''
Anyway, here is the list of variables:
http://pxes.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Command_Line
And the intended documentation, as in the first two, or better an
individual wiki page for each variable.

> 
> That way the document can be more generic, and all options don't need to be
> listed - especially ones that are very obvious... - just a thought.
> 
> It could be in the web page too, but I've seen that in a lot of projects
> that are changing a lot or have a smaller team, the web / wiki often lags
> the release unless the control files are self documenting.
I agree.
But the only thing that should evident is that you don't need to set a
huge list of variables.
> 
> m/
> 
> 
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