adaptlearning
Allow for outside configuration folders, such as /etc/ and ~/.config
Affected Area
Configuration of the authoring tool.
Requested Feature
It would be great if the tool looked at configuration folders, such as ~/.config/adapt_authoring or /etc/adapt_authoring, for configuration values.
Use Case
This would be useful to package the authoring tool in linux distributions. Specifically, I am using nixos and if configuration was separate from the project code, I could package it for the distribution and add it to its software repositories. I am sure this would be possible for other linux distributions too, if configuration was not in the same folder as code.
Current Workaround
At the moment I could package the project, by running the install script with default options. Then after overwrite conf/ as a symlink to /etc/adapt_authoring. That would allow users to place config in /etc/adapt_authoring/config.json and the tool would read it. This is of course very hacky and it would be better if the code could read the etc/xdgconfig folder as another option for configuration.
Additional Information
Also as part of this, the install script should have an option to skip the configuration portion. And I'm not sure, but I think the check for the outside folders should come after checking the conf/ folder, so that it doesn't current users.
