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From: William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] [PATCH] Add new :crypto_default configuration option.
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:16:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1254849104-sup-6471@masanjin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254417826-sup-6584@yoom.home.cworth.org>

Reformatted excerpts from Carl Worth's message of 2009-10-01:
> What makes a hook preferable over a configuration option?

I would like to support everyone's crazy desires, and a hook is worth a
thousand configuration options.

In this case, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone wants
to automatically determine the crypto setting based on the recipient, or
based on the message body. A hook would allow that.

> 2. Hooks are not supported forever, in which case users may find that
> things just start working when upgrading.

I am fine with this. Users be damned! (Or at least, required to read the
changelog.)

> Neither of those seem options look nice to me, and both seem easy to
> avoid with configuration options.

How so? Configuration options can change just as easily.

> If the plan is to go with (1) I'm concerned that I don't see sup
> shipping documentation for the current possible hooks. (This applies
> to configuration options too though. I think the maintainer should
> reject patches that add either without also adding documentation to
> the standard list.[*])

sup -l is supposed to produce all the hook documentation you'd need,
assuming a reasonable knowledge of Ruby.
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-06 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-28 22:57 Carl Worth
2009-10-01 17:07 ` William Morgan
2009-10-01 17:31   ` Carl Worth
2009-10-06 17:16     ` William Morgan [this message]

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