Config: Add prototype auto-configuration script

Config

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+"""
+Copyright 2014 Sam Dodrill <shadowh511@gmail.com>
+
+This software is under GPL.
+"""
+
+from os import system
+
+def promptUser(prompt, default):
+    inp = raw_input("%s [%s]> " % (prompt, default))
+
+    if inp == "":
+        return default
+    else:
+        return inp
+
+def promptYesNo(prompt, default=True):
+    inp = False if promptUser(prompt, "Y") == "N" else True
+    return inp
+
+configflags = ["./configure"]
+
+system("clear")
+
+art = """
+ _______ __                              __          __       _______ ______ ______     __
+|    ___|  |.-----.--------.-----.-----.|  |_.---.-.|  |_____|_     _|   __ \      |.--|  |
+|    ___|  ||  -__|        |  -__|     ||   _|  _  ||  |______||   |_|      <   ---||  _  |
+|_______|__||_____|__|__|__|_____|__|__||____|___._||__|     |_______|___|__|______||_____|"""
+
+welcome ="""
+Welcome to the Elemental-IRCd Configuration script. This script will help you choose the
+best compile flags for your installation of Elemental-IRCd.
+"""
+
+print(art)
+print(welcome)
+
+print("Please specify where you would like to install Elemental-IRCd.")
+installloc = promptUser("Install location?", "$HOME/ircd")
+
+print("")
+
+print("Please specify the maximum nickname length. This must be the same across")
+print("all servers in your network or you risk desyncs. The maximum is 50.")
+
+nicklen = 100
+while nicklen > 51:
+    if nicklen != 100:
+        print "Error: you must choose a value under 50."
+
+    nicklen = int(promptUser("Maximum nickname length?", "31"))
+
+print("")
+
+print("Would you like to use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption for client and")
+print("server links? (Highly reccomended)")
+
+usessl = promptYesNo("SSL? (Y/N)")
+
+print("")
+
+print("Would you like to disable small network support? This increases the size")
+print("of a few buffers in the code and can increase performance on large networks.")
+
+smallnet = promptYesNo("Small network? (Y/N)")
+
+configflags.append("--prefix=%s" % installloc)
+configflags.append("--with-nicklen=%s" % nicklen)
+
+if usessl:
+    configflags.append("--enable-openssl")
+else:
+    configflags.append("--disable-openssl")
+
+if not smallnet:
+    configflags.append("--enable-small-net")
+else:
+    configflags.append("--disable-small-net")
+
+print("\nThat should be it for now. Running %s" % " ".join(configflags))
+
+raw_input("Press enter to continue... ")
+
+system(" ".join(configflags))
+
+system("clear")
+
+print(art)
+
+print("""
+Next, run make and make install. Then copy %s/etc/example.conf to
+%s/etc/ircd.conf and read through the example configuration completely to make
+sure your install is tailored to your needs. After that, run %s/bin/ircd
+and start to connect clients and servers as you need.
+
+If you have any problems, please check the documentation in the doc/ folder
+of the source repository. If problems persist please stop by #elemental-ircd
+on irc.yolo-swag.com and ask. Running Elemental-IRCd in insane conditions may
+make support either very difficult or at most impossible.""" %\
+    (installloc, installloc, installloc))
+
+# vim: set ts=4 sw=4 tw=0 et
+