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+++ b/silvermirror/config.py	Thu Jan 16 04:29:39 2014 -0800
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import optparse
+import os
+import sys
+
+from .utils import home
+from martini.config import ConfigMunger
+
+class SilvermirrorConfiguration(object):
+    """
+    SilverMirror configuration class
+
+    The current form is an .ini file
+    [TODO: use `install_requires='configuration'`]:
+
+    [::SilverMirror::]
+    ...
+    """
+
+    main_section = '::SilverMirror::'
+
+    def __init__(self, filename=None):
+        if filename is not None:
+            self.read_config(filename)
+    def read_config(self, filename):
+
+        # read file
+        config = ConfigMunger(filename).dict()
+
+        # main configuration
+        main = config.pop(, {})
+        main.setdefault('basedir', home())
+        main['ignore'] = main.get('ignore', '').split() # patterns to ignore - 
+        main['hosts'] = main.get('hosts', '').split()
+        main['timeout'] = float(main.get('timeout', '10.'))
+
+        # password prompt
+        truth = dict([(str(i).lower(), i) for i in (True, False)])
+        password = main.get('password', 'true')
+        try:
+            main['password'] = truth[password.lower()]
+        except KeyError:
+            raise KeyError("password must be True or False (You gave: '%s')" % password)
+
+        # resources
+        for resource in config:
+
+            # directory of resource
+            directory = config[resource].get('directory', resource)
+            if os.path.isabs(directory):
+                raise NotImplementedError("absolute directories will not work for now so....don't do this!")
+
+            else:
+                directory = os.path.join(main['basedir'], directory)
+            config[resource]['directory'] = directory.rstrip(os.path.sep)
+
+            # per-resource files to ignore
+            # XXX  regexps for now (see `man unison`)
+            # - this is bad as whitespace patterns cannot be ignored
+            config[resource]['ignore'] = main['ignore'][:] + config[resource].get('ignore', '').split()
+
+    # set + return ditionary of config
+    self.main = main
+    self.resources = config
+    config = (main, config)
+
+def main(args=sys.argv[1:]):
+
+    usage = '%prog [options]'
+    parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=usage, description=__doc__)
+    options, args = parser.parse_args(args)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()