Re: New stable release coming up.

Oops--I just realized I was copying the users list on all of this.  Not 
that it's a big big deal, but I'm sort of off topic.  Sorry guys.

/will


On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, will wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Wari Wahab wrote:
> > 
> > >I'd be up for Ted's idea for using defaults and then an example-config.py.  
> > >Though I should note that if you add a:
> > >
> > >   sys.insert(0, "/path/to/dir/with/config/")
> > >
> > >to the top of your pyblosxom.cgi script, then you can put your config.py 
> > >wherever you like as well.
> > >  
> > >
> > Where and what could we put in as defaults? One thing about defaults is 
> > that when you install pyblosxom, it will still not work the first time 
> > as you have to at least point your datadir somewhere in the first place 
> > or place in a reasonable default ('../blog').
> 
> You put the default values in where you use the dict item.  So instead of 
> doing:
> 
>   value = py["blogdir"]
> 
> you'd do:
> 
>   value = py.get("blogdir", None)
>   if value == None:
>     print "You need to set the blogdir--refer to documentation."
>     sys.exit(1)
> 
> For most non-critical things it's easier.  Then they only have to add the
> items to config.py that they're looking for.
> 
> /will
> 
> 
> 

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