[freeside-devel] default configuration values

[Mathieu Dimanche]

Hi,

As I'm trying to have the address State field optional (in france, we 
really don't care about this information, but it is required and have us 
loose time while creating a new customer), I ran into the FS::Conf 
object and have seen a behavior I find rather awkward.

Default configuration values are not defined in the FS:Conf object but 
are hard-coded everywhere the value is fetched. Couldn't there be a 
"defaultvalue" key in the config_items array ? then, the FS::Conf would 
return (in priority order)
* the value found in the correct conf/file
* the value in the base
* the default value in the config_items array (if specified)

I think this behaviour would be must more appropriate.

What do you think ?

Mathieu

PS : What's the difference between FS::Conf in Conf.pm and FS::Conf in 
Conf_compat17.pm ? If one is deprecated, should it be removed ? Which 
should receive updates ?