[Phpwiki-talk] Planning new configurator for config-dist & config-user

[Carsten K. <car...@us...>]

Hi All,

I'd like to discuss any plans or ideas you  may have to add the 
configurator.php functionality together with the new config system. 
This might require a brand new configurator who knows, I am willing to 
put time in there.

Instead of the current self-contained configurator, a new configurator 
could parse the config-dist file eliminating the need to update the 
configurator whenever something is added to index.php (or config-dist).

The configurator would still present the admin with a locally 
accessible the web page for choosing all the config options, but a 
plugin might be possible to hook into the configurator for post-install 
tweaking. Then configurator outputs only the parameters which changed 
from those in config-dist (maybe along with minimal comments) and 
stores them into config-user.php.

Power users can still avoid the configurator if they like, by copying 
what they want from config-dist and paste it into config-user themseves 
for manual modification.

Also a pedantic request to reconsider the filename config-user.php. I 
have no "super" ideas yet, how about config-local?

Carsten