[Mailman-Developers] Problem with new configuration.Configuration.load()

[Bob Puff]

+1 on the idea of etc/mailman.cfg.  Would be nice also to have some sample
file of all configurable parms, or at least a doc of it.

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From: Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>
To: Tokio Kikuchi <tkikuchi at is.kochi-u.ac.jp>
Cc: Mailman Developers <mailman-developers at python.org>
Sent: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:45:29 -0400
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Problem with new
configuration.Configuration.load()

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> On Oct 21, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
> 
> > Mark Sapiro wrote:
> >> If the new configuration.Configuration.load() method is given a
> >> configuration file argument which is a non-existent file, it will
> >> silently fall back to loading mm_cfg.py.
> >>
> >> I think it should remember whether a filename argument is passed and
> >> complain if the passed file doesn't exist.
> >>
> > +1
> >
> > BTW, should we all move to new config sheme ?  Then, should we make  
> > some
> > upgrade script in Mailman/versions.py ?
> 
> So one question is whether we should continue to support mm_cfg.py  
> for Mailman 2.2.  Originally I thought we should for backward  
> compatibility.  Tokio, are you suggesting that we move a MM2.1  
> mm_cfg.py to etc/mailman.cfg during the upgrade?
> 
> If we do that, then we can just eradicate mm_cfg.py altogether.   
> Otherwise, if we decide to keep mm_cfg.py for backward compatibility,
>   I do think we ought to complain if a file is passed in that 
> doesn't  exist.  I wasn't sure we should do the complaining in 
> .load(), but  since those are only every called from bin scripts, I 
> think that's  probably fine.
> 
> - -Barry
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