On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:14:16PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:06:12AM +0100, John Keeping wrote:
> > I don't see anything wrong with having a template file documenting the
> > parameters, but I think it's important that there are sensible defaults
> > in place when the user's configuration file does not specify a value for
> > a parameter. It wasn't clear to me from your definition that there were
> > defaults to be overridden by the user's configuration file, as opposed
> > to forcing the user to define certain values and causing an error if
> > those are not defined.
>
> That's the case in plenty of situations - when specifying usernames and
> passwords and server hostnames, paths to cross-compiling environments
> that pretty much everyone has at a different place, and so on.
Yeah, I didn't mean to say that everything can have a sensible default.
Going back to where this started, in the omxplayer Makefile, I would map
my suggestion to a change like this:
* Change most of the ":=" in Makefile.include to "=" so that the
order of variable definition matters less
* Move Makefile.include to Makefile.defaults
* Change the "include Makefile.include" at the top of Makefile to:
include Makefile.defaults
-include Makefile.config
* Add Makefile.config to .gitignore
So that it continues to Just Work for people using buildroot but you can
create Makefile.config to override those defaults.
I agree that this isn't possible in all cases, and your template
approach is certainly useful for configuration files - particularly
because those templates can be included in end-user documentation or the
installation as they are likely to be needed in the installed
application and not just development.
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