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diff --git a/design-notes.html b/design-notes.html index 8a48ba6f..fcc446bf 100644 --- a/design-notes.html +++ b/design-notes.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="/~esr/index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/01/01 18:49:07 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/02/07 21:06:09 $ </table> <HR> <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Design Notes On Fetchmail</H1> @@ -318,15 +318,15 @@ a lot of fiddly details in the process. You'll need to do the following minimum steps. <UL> -<LI>Add a field to represent the control in <code>struct query</code> or - <code>struct hostdata</code>. - -<LI>Pick a token to declare the option in the .fetchmailrc file. Add - the token to <code>rcfile_l</code>. +<LI>Add a field to represent the control in <code>struct run</code>, + <code>struct query</code>, or <code>struct hostdata</code>. <LI>Go to <code>rcfile_y.y</code>. Add the token to the grammar. Don't forget the <code>%token</code> declaration. +<LI>Pick an actual string to declare the option in the .fetchmailrc file. Add + the token to <code>rcfile_l</code>. + <LI>Pick a long-form option name, and a one-letter short option if any are left. Go to <code>options.c</code>. Pick a new <code>LA_</code> value. Hack the <code>longoptions</code> table to set up the @@ -339,7 +339,8 @@ following minimum steps. <LI>Add code to dump the option value in <code>fetchmail.c:dump_params</code>. <LI>Add proper <code>FLAG_MERGE</code> actions in fetchmail.c's - optmerge() function. + optmerge() function. (If it's a global option, add an override + at the end of load_params. <LI>Document the option in fetchmail.man. This will require at least two changes; one to the collected table of options, and one full @@ -530,7 +531,7 @@ all shaped the design in one way or another.<P> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/01/01 18:49:07 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/02/07 21:06:09 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |