#2240: Improve the config system of TG2
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Reporter: chrisz | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: __unclassified__
Component: TurboGears | Version: 2.0b6
Severity: major | Resolution:
Keywords: config |
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Changes (by chrisz):
* type: defect => enhancement
Comment:
Right, "paster serve" assumes Paste Deploy config format, which means
unevaluated strings only - so this cannot be changed so easily. But it
would still make sense, as you suggested, to keep the application specific
config in a different file where values are evaluated. We could keep the
different file extensions `*.ini` and `*.cfg` to distinguish files which
are not evaluated (i.e. you can write strings without quotes) from files
where values are evaluated (i.e. you need to quote strings).
And maybe we can suggest that the Paste Deploy format gets changed in the
long run. This would even simplify Paste itself - if you look at the
function `server_runner` in paste.httpserver you will understand what I
mean.
In fact, it seems that Ian recognized the problem, too (see
[http://pythonpaste.org/deploy/#outstanding-issues here]): "Should objects
be Python-syntax, instead of always strings? Lots of code isn’t usable
with Python strings without a thin wrapper to translate objects into their
proper types." Probably we should discuss this on the Paste mailing list
first, to find out how likely this will be changed in Paste.
If it's not gonna be changed then we should consider the split into
`*.ini` files used by paste and `*.cfg` used for tg app configuration or
we should at least add some convenience methods to the config object which
allow getting values interpreted as bool or ints (the default config
parser actually has methods like getboolean() or getint(), we should then
make these available as well).
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.turbogears.org/ticket/2240#comment:2>
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