Re: Dia ChangeLog report for Wed Jul 2 07:23:02 2003 (UTC)

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 02 Jul 2003, Dia ChangeLog Daemon wrote:
> Snapshots available at http://www.crans.org/~chepelov/dia/snapshots
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> *** Recent ChangeLog entries:
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> --- ChangeLog.previous        2003-06-14 09:24:01.000000000 +0200
> +++ dia-cvs-snapshot/ChangeLog        2003-07-02 09:23:07.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
> +2003-07-01  Hans Breuer  <hans breuer org>
> +
> +     * lib/properties.h : introduce PROP_FLAG_OPTIONAL
> +     * lib/proplist.c : don't complain if optional attr is missing
> +     * lib/orth_conn.h : make "orth_autoroute" optional to
> +     stop complaining with older files.

This is strange -- other attributes can be missing (e.g. linestyle, color)
without any complaints, as long as they have the default value.  Why not
booleans?  orth_autoroute is definitely not optional, it's new.  If
anything, we should have versioning to tell us when an attribute can be
expected, but this problem shouldn't appear just for booleans.

-Lars

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