[vdr] Re: VDR version 1.2.5pre1 pre-release

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

Alexander Wetzel wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 07 September 2003 17:11, you wrote:
> > Olivier Jacques wrote:
> > > With a change introduced in 1.2.3 (not tested a new version until
> > > 1.2.5pre1),
> > >
> > > > - VDR now stops with exit status 2 if one of the configuration files
> > >
> > > can't be
> > >
> > > >  read correctly at program startup (suggested by Rainer Zocholl).
> > >
> > > When you have a DVBc setup, VDR still expects to have a diseqc.conf in
> > > the config directory.
> > > Not really annoying (you can just copy the sample diseqc.conf from the
> > > VDR directory), but I wondered why the VDR of my friend would not start
> > > anymore ;)
> >
> > Since VDR now doesn't start any more if it can't read valid channel
> > and timer definitions, some files just _have_ to be there. At that early
> > state I didn't want to have to check whether or not DVB-S and/or DVB-C
> > or whatever devices are present, so I just made the diseqc.conf file
> > mandatory, too.
> >
> > Klaus
> 
> I think these checks are a great idea. But may I suggest that an error while
> parsing keymacros.conf only generates a warning?
> Plain vdr 1.2.5pre2 first failed to load for me because the setting
> "Yellow    @prefermenu" was still present.

There are several error conditions in parsing keymacros.conf. But making
the "unknown plugin" just a warning might make sense - or are there others who
think that this could prevent them from getting a typo reported?

Klaus


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