idea: consideration of option providers in addition to templates

[Jeff Hammel]

option providers could be utilized to provide a set of options that tweaks part of the configuration. For instance, one option could be "email enabled trac" or "email disabled trac" and by toggling between these two, a set of configuration options could be enabled or disabled. (Its probably good to stop their functionality there, IMHO.) These would be applied on top of templates and could be easily presented via the web interface. Templates could be oblivious to these options or could specify them in some manner. They should be registered via setuptools entry points and would ideally utilize an interface structure, something like:

class OptionProvider(...):

    _options = { 'email enabled': # some ini file, list of [ (section, option, value) ], etc,
                 'email disabled': # ,}

    def options():
        """returns list of strings describing the options"""
        return self._options.keys()
   
    def configuration(option):
        return _options[option]