Peter J. Holzer via RT wrote:
Show quoted text> Thu Apr 12 13:07:04 2007: Request 26286 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by hjp@hjp.at
> Queue: DBI-Shell
> Subject: format of config file undocumented
> Broken in: (no value)
> Severity: Wishlist
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: hjp@hjp.at
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26286 >
>
>
> perldoc DBI::Shell
> mentions that there is a config file:
>
> | DBISH_CONFIG
> |
> | Which configuration file used. Unset to not read any additional
> | configurations.
>
> However, the format is completely undocumented. A quick glance at the
> source code suggests that it should be some perl code which is eval'd,
> but it wasn't immediately apparent how that code should look like.
>
IMHO, the config file is in need of major rework. In the 2.0 rewrite
(started a while ago) I looked at using INI style and/or XML instead of
an eval'd statement.
Tom
