[dev] 2.3.x installer

Jon Parise jon@csh.rit.edu
Thu, 8 Feb 2001 18:44:49 -0500


On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 06:37:06PM -0500, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> > I'd be okay with this, though I have to admit that I'm not jumping
> > to writeit myself. =) Ideally, a script would know how to put the
> > proper informationinto config/registry.php as well.
> 
> ... while I'm making feature requests, it would be ideal if said
> script could look at an existing conf file and its corresponding
> dist file and prompt you only for values that were missing from the
> conf file (i.e., new options that had shown up in the .dist file)
> (and ask you about pruning entries that have disappeared from the
> dist file?)

That sounds like a pretty reasonable request.  It would make forward
migration (is that a real term...?) a lot easier.

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member