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Re: Planned setup.ini changes for early 2018


On 23/01/2018 18:30, Achim Gratz wrote:
Jon Turney writes:
On further testing, it's not safe to expose some versions of setup to
'depends:' lines, so these will have to be called 'depends2:' or
suchlike, so they are safely ignored.

Could you at least consider my earlier proposal to leave the old-style
setup.ini separate to entirely avoid that problem and the associated
chatter in those files?

I considered a few approaches, including what you suggest.

This approach is more work, and a lot of churn, in both setup and calm. The only additional benefit you've identified is removing clutter.


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