[Tickets #9745] Re: Upgrading overwrites backends.php

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/9745
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  Ticket             | 9745
  Updated By         | Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
  Summary            | Upgrading overwrites backends.php
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | 5.0-RC2
  Type               | Bug
-State              | Not A Bug
+State              | Feedback
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> (2011-03-31 13:56) wrote:

I think you are both exaggerating, but I agree that we can improve  
both, teaching the new way of configuration, and to help admins to not  
shoot themselves into their feet.

How about picking up one of Michael's earlier ideas:
- Move the default configurations to config/default/, so that they are  
not immediately visible when looking into config/, and are not in the  
place where admins coming from H3 expect them.
- Create *.local.php.dist example files that can be copied to  
*.local.php and contain working, useful examples for configuration  
customizations, similar to hooks.php.dist
- If we move the defaults to default/ we could probably even drop the  
".local" and use the old file names again.

But we are *not* going back to having the admins update their  
configuration files (beside conf.php or course) after each update.