Dirk Meyer wrote:
I'm thinking about removing some config variables. The variables I'm
thinking of are: LOCALE, OVERLAY_DIR and FREEVO_CACHEDIR.
Why? Because I want to make some files in util independ of Freevo so
they can be used outside Freevo. Some modules only depend only Freevo
because of config with the variables above.
I agree we need some changes here.
LOCALE: The reason we need this is because the Python unicode default
sucks. I don't know why 'ascii' is the default encoding and I'm not
allowed to change that. That's why we need our Unicode and String
wrapper functions. So I suggest a file called encoding.py containing
Unicode and String and they use default settings from the system
locale settings with latin-1 as fallback. So the util modules only
need to depend on this, not the whole Freevo package.
Yes, it makes sence to get LOCALE from the system & environment, that
would be good.
FREEVO_CACHEDIR: Why should the user change that. I suggest the
default to be /var/cache/freevo with a fallback to ~/.freevo/cache if
the user has no write permissions. The databases should go to
/var/lib/freevo with the fallback being ~/.freevo/lib.
I agree to these defaults. I run Freevo as root and user
/var/xxx/freevo/ for most things. I would still like the ability to
change these locations from the configuration.
OVERLAY_DIR: Some utils depend on the vfs, so I want a default here,
too. I guess ~/.freevo/vfs sounds good here. If the user doesn't like
it (like I myself), he could use a softlink to a better place.
I think using a link to override this is bad practice. I think this is
one config setting we do need. How about adding a /var/xxx/ alternative
to this one as well?
I think it might be worth using Freevo specific environment variables
for things like FREEVO_CACHEDIR and OVERLAY_DIR. That way we don't rely
on importing another module for them and they are still east to get and set.
-Rob
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