Subject: [htdig3-dev] Re: htmerge breakage
From: Geoff Hutchison (ghutchis@wso.williams.edu)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 20:11:02 PDT
I brought this up a few weeks ago and didn't get a whole lot of response.
Now that the 3.2.0b2 release has a nice set of httools, part of me
would like to see htmerge become a real merge tool. At this point,
what's left of the "cleanup" functionality is in htpurge.
If I move htmerge into httools and make it a real database-merge
utility, it will break a lot of people's scripts (including mine).
The initial response when I brought this up was "that's fine if you
make a big note."
If I don't hear major complaints, I'm going to convert htmerge this
weekend and update the rundig script accordingly. Here's how htmerge
could act:
htmerge -m merge-configfile [-c configfile] [-v]
The -m flag could be used multiple times to loop through the
specified config files, merging each one into the main config or the
config specified by the -c flag.
If the -m flag is not specified, it does nothing and exits. This
would ensure some semblance of backwards-compatibility. The other
option is to spit up a usage message, which would at least make
people aware of the change. Right now I'm leaning towards the
graceful exit.
Thoughts? Complaints?
-Geoff
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