[ECOS] Beware ecosconfig was Re: [ECOS] [Fwd: Beware ConfigTool]

[John Carter <john dot carter at tait dot co dot nz>]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, "pb.jack" <pb.jack@powerbase.com.tw> wrote:

> I found a strange behave of configtool 2.0...

My guess is it is the underlying ecosconfig tool.

It's really quite cute.

Did you know it rewrites your config file on the fly every time you use 
it?

I first noticed that it changes the "modified" time stamp every time you 
run "ecosconfig tree".

Played havoc with my fancy "Makefile". Had to use a md5checksum instead of 
timestamps to work out when to remake things.

And if it finds things that it doesn't like, did you know it quietly 
overwrites them?

Caused me to lose a few hairs I tell you.

I thought I would just use Emacs to hack things the way I liked them, and 
run ecosconfig.

Nothing happened.

No change.

Look in the config file.

Whoops. Gone.

I must be going mad.

Put it in again, run "ecosconfig tree", and whoops! Gone again.

OK, what I was doing was something that configtool was righteously 
preventing me from doing, but still, it gave me a nasty turn.


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