allow_recurring?

I'm setting up a Drupal 6 / EC 4 store to sell memberships using ec_recurring and ec_roles (thanks Sammy!) I found that to use A.net for my products, I had to set "allow_recurring" to TRUE in ec_authorize_net_receipt_info().

As I understand the current state of things, ec_recurring is more like "automatically expire" than "automatically renew". That is, there's no way to actually do a recurring payment. In fact, without true recurring payments, I'm not sure at all why "allow_recurring" even exists. Which makes me wonder if I'm understanding properly.

Is that flag for future expansion when true automatic payments are implemented? If so, I can imagine that some store owners would want to give their members the option of automatically renewing or not. In that case, they'll still want to use the A.net gateway for an automatically-expiring ("recurring") product that doesn't actually renew automatically. So the flag as currently implemented would seem to get in the way.

Anyway, my suggestion is to either set allow_recurring to TRUE in the A.net module, or change code elsewhere to allow recognition of the distinction between a one-time purchase of an automatically-expiring product and a true automatic renewal.

Thanks!