Updated config.py more platform independent (Win32)

[phreed]

Issues to discuss:

Use of platformdirs

platformdirs makes some decisions that differ from those in the config.py.
https://platformdirs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Use of sysconfig

sysconfig can be used to identify the site-packages (or equivalent).
The use of MAIN_PATH = Path(sysconfig.get_path('purelib')) may be more reliable;
than, searching based on knowing the location of __file__.

Using python Paths rather than strings

The place where this is most likely is config.py.
Are there other source files that should be considered?

[brothercorvo]

we need to extensive test this. In general we want to host all user configurations in the YAML file.
see the priorty of configuration

[phreed]

we need to extensive test this. In general we want to host all user configurations in the YAML file. see the priorty of configuration

Yes indeed.
I see FTSConfig.yaml as used in development.
I see in FTS Docs the two files described being edited to configure FTS are <site-packages>/FreeTAKServer-UI/config.py and <site-packages>/FreeTAKServer/controllers/configuration/MainConfig.py.

Those files are:

• https://github.com/FreeTAKTeam/FreeTAKServer-User-Docs/docs/docs/FreeTAKHub/WebMap/Installation.md
• https://github.com/FreeTAKTeam/FreeTAKServer-User-Docs/docs/docs/Installation/Android/installUIOnAndroid.md
• https://github.com/FreeTAKTeam/FreeTAKServer-User-Docs/docs/docs/Installation/Windows/FreeTAKServer_Windows_Install_Tutorial.md
• https://github.com/FreeTAKTeam/FreeTAKServer-User-Docs/docs/docs/Installation/RaspberryPie/Installation.md
• https://github.com/FreeTAKTeam/FreeTAKServer-User-Docs/docs/docs/Installation/Linux/Installation.md
• https://github.com/FreeTAKTeam/FreeTAKServer-User-Docs/docs/docs/Installation/Cloud/AWS.md

Is it appropriate for these documents to recommend modifying config.py?

[brothercorvo]

@naman108 please review this and see if we can approve

[brothercorvo]

@naman108 ping