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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KConfigBase
From:       Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date:       1999-05-30 13:32:11
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Rik Hemsley wrote:
> 
> Well, I was a little shocked at my parser suddenly breaking and being unable to
> provide me with the right headers.
> 
> Then (after 1/2 an hour) I realised it was trying to look for a header with
> name 'From,Date,Subject'.
> 
> Please, please, please do not change default parameters like that. There's no
> mention in the ChangeLog within kconfigbase.h, and nothing in KDE2PORTING.

I just switched it back to the old ','.

I don't know if Preston did that change intentionally. Maybe not.
Depends on what his latest draft for the config file format says.

> If you're going to change a default parameter, don't ! Break the method
> completely instead, i.e. give it a different name, like readStrListEntry
> instead of readListEntry.

Harri.

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