[Swift-devel] Re: r1793 restoring of sites.xml LRC

[Mihael Hategan]

I forgot we had it before.

The idea was to allow old sites.xml files to be used. I'll remove it.

On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 13:01 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> r1793 puts back in the sites.xml element. I removed that deliberately as a 
> config option that does nothing, has done nothing, and likely will not do 
> anything either ever or for a long time.
> 
> Its displeasing to my sense of user interface aesthetics to have 
> configuration options that (deliberately) do nothing; they take up 
> documentation space (should anyone bother documenting them); lead to user 
> confusion when a user experiments with changing it to no effect; they lead 
> to cruft buildup in the code and in configuration files.
> 
> If this config option is going to stay, then I think it should at least 
> print a warning indicating that it is ignored when specified rather than 
> silently being ignored.
>