Subj : Re: To Digital Man
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : Sinister x
Date : Fri Aug 05 2005 05:55 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

I didn't think about that, but that's definitely an option thanks for the 
help.

The basic implication of what I'm trying to make though is something like 
this:

Let's say a user is in the oBV/2 command shell that I'm making, inside that 
shell let's say there's a few options that are separate from what is in the 
rest of the board. They'll have an option for which stats set, menu set, and 
prompts set that they're on within the oBV/2 command shell that I want them 
to be able to configure on a per-user basis with prefs saved. I would 
PREFERRABLY like to be able to have this information saved somewhere on the 
board in one of the regular data files, instead of having to role my own 
configuration files. Is this kind of extensibility possible or on the 
horizon?

I suppose another way to illustrate is like this, in my software that I've 
been working on called Psylent, if a user wanted to add extensibility to his 
own configuration options, he could simply go into the rdbms, create a new 
table that is 1:many from the user table and use the UserNumber as the 
foreign key. Then they could have whatever config options they wanted. Doing 
it by file i/o though, I couldn't see a feasible way of doing that without 
specifying your own config files, b/c any option that you would add to the 
user's data would grow the user data file (ok in mystic it's called 
users.dat not sure what it is in synchronet), which is a bitch as a 
developer to make an upgrade available for users unless you role your own 
upgrade program to grow the config file. Hope that helps with what I'm 
trying to explain.

"Digital Man" <digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-rhu-this> wrote in 
message news:42F2C87E.33039.sync@vert.synchro.net...
>  To: Sinister x
>  Re: Re: To Digital Man
>  By: Sinister x to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Aug 05 2005 01:59 am
>
> > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
> >
> > Point noted, can we rely on any kind of "internal" setting extensibility
> > system? It'd be nice to have the settings scalable for whatever we want
> > instead of rolling our own configuration system.
>
> There's already ways to do stuff like that by dynamically changing the
> bbs.menu_dir or bbs.menu_file as needed. I'm not sure what you mean by 
> "setting
> extensibility system".
>
>                                                  digital man
>
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