Default config macOS 10.13

[JOJ0]

Hi,
I just installed beets from git on a second computer and realized that the default config I initially get looks like this:

directory: ~/music/
library: ~/.beet/musiclibrary.db
log: ~/.beet/import.log
resume: ask
default_action: asis

From reading beets.readthedocs.io it seems options log, resume and default_action should be set on the import level rather than on the root level.

I assume actually it should be like that:

directory: ~/Music/
library: ~/.beet/musiclibrary.db
import:
  log: ~/.beet/import.log
  resume: ask
  default_action: asis

So is the default config I got correct or is this considered a bug? Didn't look at the config-generating code yet...

[wisp3rwind]

How did you install beets exacty? I'm pretty sure that we don't ship a default config file (grep agrees), so this is most likely an outdated package elsewhere. You're right that these should be in the import section.

[sampsyo]

Indeed; the normal way beets ships (e.g., via pip install) does not supply any sort of default configuration file… the idea is that an empty config file should work fine. So it would be interesting to know where this wrong-looking config file came from.

[JOJ0]

Hi, I cloned the git and then did setup.py install in a Python venv.

I tried to reproduce but config was not generated. I think I was wrong and it might have been my own wrong config I put there some time ago and can't remember. It's on my music and DJ machine, a macbook where I wanted to start using beets for ages already but never found the time. I tried to find out when it was initially produced by looking at the creation date (mac hfs) of config.yaml but then realized that it can't be trusted because I used vim to edit and vim recreates the file on each save (.tmpfile.swp). At least I learned something new.

Anyway, sorry for the hassle, it most probably was wrong alert :-)
Thanks for your time, closing.