Subject: Re: [ecasound] ecasoundrc changes in CVS
From: S. Massy (theanaloguekid_AT_tak.net.dhis.org)
Date: Sat Dec 08 2001 - 18:10:41 EET
On Sat, 08 Dec 2001, Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen_AT_wakkanet.fi> wrote:
> This solves a few problems, but also creates a few new ones. One new
> problem is interaction with old ecasound versions. When you run an old
> ecasound version, it always fills your ~/.ecasoundrc with old values, and
> this might confuse newer ecasound versions.
So the problem you see is in switching back and forth between older and
newer verions?
>
> Few possibly solutions:
> - rename all ecasoundrc tags (I already did this for
> 'ext-*' tags)
On the other hand this brings about tedious work and more possible
confusion.
> - add versioning of ecasoundrc files (possible, only problem
> is that user shouldn't have to specify any versions numbers
> in ~/.ecasoundrc)
Lots of trouble for all...
> - revert (edi-11) and go back to the old scheme
No! This was really a much needed feature...
>
One thing that, while not solving the problem entirely, might help, is
implementing the ability to specify alternate config-files from the
command line. (I've wished for that at whiles while testing different
params in the config-file.)
Something that could be done too would be to move .ecasoundrc in
.ecasound/ecasoundrc. Reasons? Right now user defined preset and
resource files are stored in ecasound-config by default, this should
have been .ecasound-config, if anything. But while we're at it, why not
move everything ecasound related in a user's home directory to
.ecasound?
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