[vdr] Re: New Setup Options (Was: instant recording - timer?)

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Sergei Haller wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Klaus Schmidinger (KS) wrote:
> 
> KS> I guess this whole discussion wouldn't have started if the default instant
> KS> recording time would have been longer. I'll therefore make it 3 hours by
> KS> default and user configurable.
> 
> Apropos: New Setup options.
> 
> sometimes I switch back to an older version of vdr to test something.
> the effect is that on exit the old vdr version "forgets" about setup
> options which were in the setup.conf but unknown to the old version of
> vdr.
> 
> My Idea is to consider all unknown setup.conf entries as some kind of
> comments and to put them again (unchanged) into setup.conf on exit.
> 
> of course this wouldn't change the behaviour of older versions, but the
> behaviour of new versions which would become old with the time.

Wouldn't it be easier to simply copy the setup.conf file before
running the older version and then restoring it?

Klaus
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