Guy Harris wrote:
Luis Ontanon wrote:
I have four diferent examples I wrote myself:
four user encap "protocols", the k12 config file, the snmpv3 users
file and lastly the df_macros table
but there's more candidates in there, not written by me:
Are these all preference settings?
If so, should this be a preference type?
That's the same that comes to my mind.
While I can see that this is a case for a new preference setting type,
adding a completely new mechanism really seems "over engineered" -
unless there's a real good reason to do so.
Another drawback of your solution is to explain things to users - some
settings can be set through the GUI, some other can be set through a
file in, some can be ... - that doesn't sound very clean to me.
Regards, ULFL