https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55583
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Bug ID: 55583
Summary: Generate user config files at runtime, not install
time
Product: Pywikibot
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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I'm packaging pywikibot for Arch Linux here:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-pywikibot-git/
Packing software for distribution means that install scripts might be run by a
different person than the user. Install scripts are not the place for user
config, and it's also bad practice to force ANY interactive configs at that
stage.
Please don't run generate_user_files.py from setup.py. Find some way to do this
at runtime.
Or, ideally, to behave sanely with no configs at all.
At the moment we are just providing a sample config for users to edit, and
doing: sed -i /generate_user_files.py/Id setup.py
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