On 2014-11-17 Heiko Schlittermann <hs@???> wrote:
> when giving lessons about Exim it's always not easy to differentiate
> between the generic and the private options in the driver instance
> configuration blocks.
[...]
> What about adding some syntactic sugar, some decorations,
> to the private options. Either this way
> dnslookup:
> driver = dnslookup
> _check_srv = yes
> domains = !+local_domains
> transport = remote_smtp
> ignore_target_hosts = 0.0.0.0 : 127.0.0.0/8
> no_more
> … or even more verbose:
> dnslookup:
> driver = dnslookup
> dnslookup.check_srv = yes
> domains = !+local_domains
> transport = remote_smtp
> ignore_target_hosts = 0.0.0.0 : 127.0.0.0/8
> no_more
> What do you think? It's kind of a change, but with sensible coding it
> could be made compatible with all existing configurations.
[...]
The cost of renaming variables and dropping the old name is huge. Keeping
the old name around as an alternative name forever has also some
non-neglible cost (longer docs, slightly more complex, ugly).
OTOH the gain seems to be minimal.
cu Andreas
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