[Mailman-Users] mm_cfg.py doesn't appear to be working

[Timothy R. Robnett]

On Tue Aug 13, 2002 at 07:43:42PM +0100, Richard Barrett wrote:
> A couple of thoughts:
> 
> 1. Some list attributes are initially set from mm_cfg.py configuration 
> variables ONLY when the list is created. Subsequent changes to those 
> defaults aren't propagated automatically into these per list attributes. 
> DEFAULT_URL is an example. However, a list's URL can be changed (carefully) 
> through the web admin GUI with MM 2.0.x or with bin/fix_url.py with MM 2.1.
> 
> 2. Some defaults (call them secondary) in Defaults.py are defined in terms 
> of other defaults (call them primary) defined higher up the source of 
> Defaults.py. If you change the value of a primary default in mm_cfg.py you 
> will not automatically change the value of those secondary defaults that 
> depended on that redefined primary default; by the time mm_cfg.py is being 
> processed the value of the secondary defaults has already been assigned. 
> You must also redefine those secondary defaults in mm_cfg.py below the 
> redefinition of the primary they depended on; just copy the line that set 
> the secondary default from Defaults.py to mm_cfg.py and when it is 
> processed it will pick up the revised value it depends upon.
> 
> fyi: all the Mailman code imports mm_cfg.py which in turn imports 
> Defaults.py. Hence the definitions in mm_cfg.py are evaluated following 
> evaluation of Defaults. py. Values assigned in Defaults.py are re-evaluated 
> after mm_cfg.py is processed by Python. If changing it in Defaults.py works 
> and changing it in mm_cfg.py does not then I reckon you've got problem 2 
> above.

Thanks, turns out my problem was a bit of 1 and 2. My initial post said
that changing settings in Default.py worked but mm_cfg.py didn't. Turns
out as you described some things I was trying to ajust needed to be done
elsewhere which gave the initial impression that one worked and the other
did not. 

Thanks again for the assistance.

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Timothy R. Robnett
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