[weewx-development] Nach update auf weewx-development 4.10.0.a1

2022-11-07 Thread Hartmut Schweidler
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[weewx-development] Some wee_ctl thoughts from the draft wiki page

2022-11-07 Thread Vince Skahan
The idea of a wee_ctl utility is interesting, but a tough one perhaps given how very flexible weewx is and how creative folks have been over the years leveraging that flexibility. I'll attach an obfuscated weewx.conf from my system. Any new solution would have to be able to generate something

Re: [weewx-development] config file quoting and whitespace changes during upgrade

2022-11-07 Thread matthew wall
we have a wiki page devoted to installation options. it is a bit haphazard right now (especially the 'ctl' pattern), but it does capture some of the issues: https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/installer-options please refrain from modifying the wiki page - tom and i are trying to curate it in

Re: [weewx-development] config file quoting and whitespace changes during upgrade

2022-11-07 Thread Greg Troxel
Joel Bion writes: > One other question: is it possible to ask the user, instead of running > setup.py, to run a script located in the weewx 'top level directory' that > does the following: (a) uses the new form Python install/upgrade (b) then > runs separate code (even if it's in python) to upgr

Re: [weewx-development] config file quoting and whitespace changes during upgrade

2022-11-07 Thread Joel Bion
One other question: is it possible to ask the user, instead of running setup.py, to run a script located in the weewx 'top level directory' that does the following: (a) uses the new form Python install/upgrade (b) then runs separate code (even if it's in python) to upgrade the .ini file, put things

Re: [weewx-development] config file quoting and whitespace changes during upgrade

2022-11-07 Thread Vince Skahan
Perhaps review the original setup.py vintage weewx design principles and see if any have changed due to the distutils deprecation ? - be pure python for everything - install everything to one tree - except os-required things (startup file and custom syslog configs) And of cours

Re: [weewx-development] config file quoting and whitespace changes during upgrade

2022-11-07 Thread Tom Keffer
On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 2:20 PM Chris Richmond wrote: > > Is there a concise problem statement related to all this? It's funny that > over the years (decades) I think much better working from > a problem statement. > Good comments. As for the config problem statement, I don't know. You'd have to

Re: [weewx-development] config file quoting and whitespace changes during upgrade

2022-11-07 Thread Chris Richmond
Maybe I've missed the whole point of these proposed changes, but I'll offer my experience on the offhand it might help. For a *very* long time, when I was working, we had two very large sets of tools, the first in Perl, then a complete re-write in Python. In both cases, all the configs (a LOT of