On Feb 20, 2008 4:01 AM, Tom Davidson <tjd@...1007...> wrote:
'options.bulia'
that one wasn't mine, it was jon cruz doing something at my request :)
- Deprecate/disallow the use of the preferences file for passing in
arbitrary debugging parameters. pro: "clean" con: would remove useful functionality; hard to systematically find all the debugging pref names
I think this is the way to go. Debugging should be ifdefed out or removed. Debugging which is itself flakey and may not work because of missing element in the XML file is worse than no debugging.
- Do not issue a warning for prefs that begin with "debug.", and move
existing debug prefs to this namespace (options.filtertest becomes debug.filtertest, etc.)
This is the second preference, if someone insists on keeping them, although I really don't think we need these debug prefs in public SVN - either use and keep them in your tree while debugging then throw them away OR properly document, rename to something sensible, and add to preferences-skeleton.