From 057f214e33cb9046d622326423745cc3570944e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Justus Kuhlmann <justus@kuhl-mann.de>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 11:08:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] create config on init

---
 corrlib/initialization.py | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/corrlib/initialization.py b/corrlib/initialization.py
index f6ef5aa..28cf4c7 100644
--- a/corrlib/initialization.py
+++ b/corrlib/initialization.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
+from configparser import ConfigParser
 import sqlite3
 import datalad.api as dl
 import os
+import tracker as tr
 
 
 def _create_db(db):
@@ -34,19 +36,40 @@ def _create_db(db):
     conn.close()
 
 
+def _create_config(path):
+    """
+    Create the config file for backlogger.
+
+    """
+    config = ConfigParser()
+    config['core'] = {
+        'version': '1.0',
+        'db_path': os.path.join(path, 'backlogger.db'),
+        'projects_path': os.path.join(path, 'projects'),
+        'archive_path': os.path.join(path, 'archive'),
+        'toml_imports_path': os.path.join(path, 'toml_imports'),
+        'import_scripts_path': os.path.join(path, 'import_scripts'),
+        'tracker': 'datalad',
+        'cached': True,
+    }
+    with open(os.path.join(path, '.corrlib'), 'w') as configfile:
+        config.write(configfile)
+
+
 def create(path):
     """
     Create folder of backlogs.
 
     """
     dl.create(path)
-    _create_db(path + '/backlogger.db')
-    os.chmod(path + '/backlogger.db', 0o666)  # why does this not work?
-    os.makedirs(path + '/projects')
-    os.makedirs(path + '/archive')
-    os.makedirs(path + '/toml_imports')
-    os.makedirs(path + '/import_scripts/template.py')
-    with open(path + "/.gitignore", "w") as fp:
+    _create_db(os.path.join(path, 'backlogger.db'))
+    os.chmod(os.path.join(path, 'backlogger.db'), 0o666)  # why does this not work?
+    _create_config(path)
+    os.makedirs(os.path.join(path, 'projects'))
+    os.makedirs(os.path.join(path, 'archive'))
+    os.makedirs(os.path.join(path, 'toml_imports'))
+    os.makedirs(os.path.join(path, 'import_scripts/template.py'))
+    with open(os.path.join(path, ".gitignore"), "w") as fp:
         fp.write(".cache")
         fp.close()
-    dl.save(path, dataset=path, message="Initialize backlogger directory.")
+    tr.save(path, message="Initialized correlator library", dataset=path)