This is arguably the fault of Wordpress developers for creating a config system which forces or at least encourages you to fork their code to set your database

This is arguably the fault of Wordpress developers for creating a config system which forces or at least encourages you to fork their code to set your database location. This is why configuration shouldn't go in code, ala 12factor: [1]: http://www.12factor.net/ http://www.12factor.net/