Only overridden settings are sent to the daemon, and we're going to do the same
for the build hook to. It needs to be ensured that overridden settings are in
fact consistently marked as such, so that they actually get sent.
Change-Id: I7cd58d925702f86cf2c35ad121eb191ceb62a355
They are like experimental features, but opt-in instead of opt-out. They
will allow us to gracefully remove language features. See #437
Change-Id: I9ca04cc48e6926750c4d622c2b229b25cc142c42
this is a bit of a hack, but it's apparently the cleanest way of doing
this in the absence of any kind of priority/provenance information for
values of some given setting. we'll need this to deprecate build-hook.
Change-Id: I03644a9c3f17681c052ecdc610b4f1301266ab9e
Improvements in src/libutil/config.*
(cherry picked from commit dea63bb81078d7290410544285c6df1a8e002952)
Change-Id: I8090eb2ad393dd9964cf2d5254ec8c796b1bd367
This is generally a fine practice: Putting implementations in headers
makes them harder to read and slows compilation. Unfortunately it is
necessary for templates, but we can ameliorate that by putting them in a
separate header. Only files which need to instantiate those templates
will need to include the header with the implementation; the rest can
just include the declaration.
This is now documenting in the contributing guide.
Also, it just happens that these polymorphic serializers are the
protocol agnostic ones. (Worker and serve protocol have the same logic
for these container types.) This means by doing this general template
cleanup, we are also getting a head start on better indicating which
code is protocol-specific and which code is shared between protocols.
Rather than doing `allowEmpty` as boolean, have separate types and use
`std::optional`. This makes it harder to forget the possibility of an
empty path.
The `build-hook` setting was categorized as a `PathSetting`, but
actually it was split into arguments. No good! Now, it is
`Setting<Strings>` which actually reflects what it means and how it is
used.
Because of the subtyping, we now also have support for
`Setting<std::optional<String>>` in general. I imagine this can be used
to clean up many more settings also.
Issues:
1. Features gated on disabled experimental settings should warn and be
ignored, not silently succeed.
2. Experimental settings in the same config "batch" (file or env var)
as the enabling of the experimental feature should work.
3. For (2), the order should not matter.
These are analogous to the issues @roberth caught with my changes for
arg handling, but they are instead for config handling.
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
Alois Wohlschlager