Hi,

user-config.py MUST NOT exist in SVN download, otherwise every update would overwrite your settings. It will be created by generate_user_files.py when you run it after downloading the framework. Try to read manuals other than for Mac, because they may help you. Of course, Windows and Unix users form the majority here, as everywhere, an I am not sure in Mac version being kept up-to-date. Perhaps you are the man who will do it after some experiments. :-)

2013/7/1 William H. Magill magill@icloud.com

Hi... I'm a long time editor over at LOTRO-wiki.com. Just beginning to learn about bots, because all of the others who have done bots in the past have become inactive.

I am long-time Mac based, and a retired Unix Sys Admin, so the innards of OSX are not strange to me.

I have begun to update: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/Mac-- those first updates are hanging waiting for someone to approve them.

Two things have jumped out at me...

1- in the SVN download there is an error:

U pywikipedia/externals/simplejson Checked out external at revision 242.

Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn.toolserver.org:443':

• The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!

Certificate information:

• Hostname: *.toolserver.org
• Valid: from Sun, 26 May 2013 09:34:24 GMT until Wed, 28 May 2014

17:08:01 GMT

• Issuer: GeoTrust, Inc., US
• Fingerprint: bf:35:7f:3e:62:4b:89:6c:bc:39:c9:c3:38:81:9e:53:26:43:be:f4

(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? p svn: warning: Error handling externals definition for 'pywikipedia/externals/pycolorname': svn: warning: OPTIONS of ' https://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/drtrigon/externals/pycolorname': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server ( https://svn.toolserver.org)

Fetching external item into 'pywikipedia/externals/opencv'

The first error is Apple's Gatekeeper objecting to the Certificate... no big deal.

However, on accepting the certificate, the SVN throws an error attempting 'pywikipedia/externals/pycolorname'

2- In the instructions in Manual:Pywikipediabot/Mac, the first thing they have you do is to edit "user-config.py"

This file does not exist in the current SVN download.

The included README says nothing useful.

The README file in the docs directory says the following:

"This directory/folder is empty when you get the package. Change to the parent directory (containing 'Doxyfile' and 'setup.cfg') and run the release maintenance script with 'python maintenance/release.py' to fill this directory with documentation data."

As I am attempting to document the step-by-step process of installing "pywikipediabot" on the Mac, the immediate question is...

Is the above instruction the FIRST thing to be done when a virgin copy of pywikipediabot" is downloaded from the SVN. i.e. to a system which has never had it installed before... and therefore has no user-config.py file to edit.

OR... should "setup.cfg" be modified to create it?

OR (based on comments in CONTENTS) should "generate_user_files.py" -- be run first?

OR "config.py"?

T.T.F.N. William H. Magill

magill@icloud.com magill@mac.com whmagill@gmail.com

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