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Id: 49042
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Queue: Config-General
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Requestors: bemace [...] gmail.com
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Broken in: 2.43
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  Wed Aug 26 17:19:12 2009 bemace [...] gmail.com - Ticket created
Subject: DefaultConfig doesn't work without MergeDuplicateOptions
If you define a default value for a parameter via the DefaultConfig option and set the value in the config file, you get an array containing the default value followed by the config file value. I believe the correct behavior would be to only use the default values when the parameter is omitted from config file completely, regardless of MergeDuplicateOptions.
  Mon Oct 19 12:10:56 2009 tlinden [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
It behaves as expected. The DefaultConfig option will only be used to initialize the config hash. If a variable exists in the config, which were defined in the DefaultConfig, you as the programmer, have to decide how to behave. The standard IS to enable MergeDuplicateOptions. This way the pre-defined value will be overwritten. The parser doesn't know from where an eventually existing hash came. It could be that the existing data came from previous loops inside the parsed config file (eg. the user defined the same variables twice).
  Mon Oct 19 12:11:00 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Oct 19 12:11:09 2009 tlinden [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'