[asterisk-users] CM for menuselect choices

[Antony Stone]

On Friday 05 May 2017 at 16:52:39, Richard Kenner wrote:

> > Of course, you might run into problems if the later release introduces
> > new options (or deprecates old ones) which then aren't going to be in
> > your makeopts file
> 
> That's my question: how do I reflect the changes that I made to the
> defaults in a way that's not dependent on the exact set of options
> that each release has?

I cannot think of a possible answer to that, because you are trying to guard 
against features in a future release which may not even have been considered 
by the developers yet.

Maybe your best bet would be to take the default options file for the "current 
release" (whatever you regard that as), create a 'diff' between that and the 
file with your selections in, and then use that to 'patch' future options files, 
on the basis that any new options will then keep their (future) default 
values, and any still-existing options will be changed to your choices.  The 
only problem I can immediately see is if an option stays, but its default gets 
changed, the patch file will no longer match - but at least you'll get an error 
message when you try to do the patching, and can investigate the problem.


Regards,


Antony.

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