[Scummvm-devel] debuglevel in config file

[Arisme]

Max Horn wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I am toying with the thought of just completely removing support for 
> setting a debug level in the config file.
> 
> There seems to be no good reason for this feature in the first place; we 
> mostly do it because we can, I think. However, that causes some headache 
> in the code when it tries to keep the global gDebugLevel in sync with 
> the value stored in the config manager (we have to store it in a global 
> due to speed reasons, otherwise using debug() extensively, as we 
> currently do, would slow us down to a crawl).
> In all the times I work on ScummVM, I have used debug levels a lot, but 
> I always set them via the command line (-d), never ever did I set it via 
> the config file, nor did I ever have any desire for it. I tried hard and 
> can't think of any scenario were being able to do that would have 
> offered me any benefit...
> 
> So, if anybody has some realistic scenario (or even better, a real 
> experience) were setting the debuglevel via the config file is/was/would 
> be useful, please tell me. Otherwise, I'll just remove this (mis)feature 
> ASAP.
> 
> 

I use it in the configuration file because it's easier to modify this 
than to create a WinCE shortcut if I want to print debug informations in 
the release build, but I can live without it :)

Cheers

Nicolas