Yep I thought about putting these credentials into the conf.py file but I found two major drawbacks :
- If you have several projects you have to duplicate the credentials in all of them. - If your project is under source control and you work with other people, you have to put someone's credentials into source control. This is a very bad practice :-) A simple config file into the user's home is more appropriate, don't you think ? robin On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Max Battcher <m...@worldmaker.net> wrote: > On Thursday, December 22, 2011, Robin <diabete...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I've recently contributed to sphinx-contrib with a "clearquest" > directive. See http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-clearquest/ > > In this extension, there is a connection to a database server and user > credentials are needed. Since this is not a good idea to store these > credentials into rst code, I thought of putting them in a separate settings > file: ~/sphinxcontrib. This is a regular .ini file format with sections > such as follows > > > > [clearquest] > > username = john > > password = doe > > db_name = defects > > db_set = cq_server > > > > If you like the idea, it would be nice to see other sphinx-contrib > extensions use the same file to store user settings ;-) > > Most extensions I've seen use the sphinx project-level conf.py for these > sort of settings. > > If you can use the conf.py config object, that might be a better idea than > a home directory folder. > > -- > --Max Battcher-- > http://www.worldmaker.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sphinx-dev" group. > To post to this group, send email to sphinx-dev@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sphinx-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to sphinx-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sphinx-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev?hl=en.
