Developers of Sympa

["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 07/03/2018 01:35 PM, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I just took a look on
> 
>     src/lib/Sympa/Constants.pm.in
> 
> where we have
> 
> use constant CONFIG           => '--CONFIG--';
> use constant WWSCONFIG        => '--WWSCONFIG--';
> use constant SENDMAIL_ALIASES => '--SENDMAIL_ALIASES--';
> 
> and i see some benefit to get them configurable
> (even if the configuration is a perl file)
> 
> * for the user, it becomes ... well ... configurable
>   ( so you don't need to reinstall or roughtly patch your install)
> * for us, it remove one dep from autotools (i still think it's
>   a good idea to remove when we can)
> 
> and i wonder if there is a good reason to have those options available
> at installation time instead of runtime.
> 
> any comment ?
> 
> regards
> marc
> 

It is better to stick to the documented installation method rather than
editing Sympa Perl modules.

Too easy to forget that you changed them and next time you upgrade these
changes will get overridden.

Regards
         Racke

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