MailWatch and CustomConfig.pm

[James A. Pattie]

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Julian Field wrote:
| When you install the RPM of MailScanner, it shouldn't over-write
| CustomConfig.pm if you have changed it anyway. Are you saying that it
| always gets over-written even when you have changed it?

Well for those of us not using rpm, Debian or tarballs, etc., this would make
upgrading MailScanner much nicer as the MailWatch or other addons should
hopefully just keep working.

I'm actually starting to tackle debianizing the MailWatch package and this would
be a nice feature to make packaging easier.

|
| At 12:43 22/03/2004, you wrote:
|
|> Hi Julian,
|>
|> whenever I upgrade to a new version I need to add
|>
|> require 'MailScanner/MailWatch.pm';
|>
|> to CustomConfig.pm again. Is there no way around it? You could e.g.
|> require a file 'MailScanner/CustomRequirements.pm' which will never be
|> overwritten on upgrades. We all could put our CustomConfig.pm additions
|> in this second file. This would allow you to change CustomConfig.pm
|> whenever you want to and still give us the flexibility needed.
|>
|> Regards,
|>   JP


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