suggestion for a future release

[Andrew Milner]

I have seen many posts where there has been confusion or doubt as to how weewx has been installed or updated.  As a suggestion would it not be good idea for this information to be included in weewx.conf together with the version.

ie if installing or updating via setup.py this is included together with the current version (and ideally the previous version)

and similarly if using one of the other installes / updaters.

Just a thought for a future release/update

[vince]

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 10:06:42 PM UTC-7, Andrew Milner wrote:

would it not be good idea for this information to be included in weewx.conf together with the version.

You already know that answer from 'where' the file is located.

If it's in /home/weewx then you used setup.py, otherwise you used the pre-packaged version.

And you can still have cases where people installed weewx twice (once setup.py, once packaged) and have a messed up system as a result.

[Phil Owers]

Silly question time but why can you load it in (at least ) 2 places

[Tom Keffer]

There's nothing messed up with installing weewx twice. Heck, I probably have a half-dozen installations right now on my nuc. 

There are no hardwired paths in a weewx installation. Provided it can find its modules, it can live anywhere. The key is weewx.conf: that's where all the paths are. Given a weewx.conf, any installation of weewx can run it and come up with the same results.

-tk

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