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Improvement
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Major
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None
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Platform: All, OS: All
Since the 1.0 version of the plugin requires the user to separate out the load
rules from the config spec, it takes a potentially large amount of work to
manually do this. It would be better for users of the plugin if the plugin
itself could detect that the configuration is out of date and automatically
configure the separate rules by parsing the config spec.
I thought about this, but it wasn't quite as trivial as it seems at first
glance. Remember, all base ClearCase configurations now need load rules -
previously, only snapshot views did, so anyone using dynamic views wouldn't get
anything out of this. In addition, the load rules for snapshot views in <1.0
could be incompatible with what we need for load rules in >=1.0 (view paths
could be included, etc), or could be in include files, etc... Yes, not doing
anything automatically does require work, but I believe it's better to require
work than to tell users it's being updated automatically and then not have the
update work properly in many cases, without any way of notifying users of that.