[pyalbum-general] User variables not in 'first'?

[Mark H. <mha...@sk...>]

Hi Bernd,
  I'm slowly getting my head around this nice piece of software!  I figured
I should take our discussion to the mailing list - that is what it is for!

I've a few little patches I will upload to sourceforge that may interest
you.  I've a question about user variables, and why they are not allowed to
be in 'first'?

My guess is that when processing 'first', you don't have the template
information available to know what user options are valid?  I notice that
pyalbum does not complain if 'user.whatever' values are set in first, but
they seem to have no effect.

If the above is somewhere near correct, then would it be possible to
'remember' all user properties it found in 'first', processing them later?
I'm happy to have a look into this, but was wondering if I am missing
something that will make this a problem, or is something you explicitly
don't want.

The only reason I care (which I don't really!) is that this appears the only
reason I would need 2 config files for my albums - the main one, and one
with only user variables.

Thanks,

Mark.