Of chickens, eggs, and shadows thereof

[Peter Williams]

Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:29, Masklinn<masklinn at masklinn.net> wrote:
>> If you want to go for UI simplicity, hg should have an extension-
>> management command (at least for builtin exts) so that people don't
>> need to muck aroud with .hgrc just because they want to enable
>> bookmarks or record.
>>
>> A configuration command too.
> 
> That's not going to happen.
> 
> And anyway, how is editing a text file in a very well-known
> configuration format harder than having to learn a new command and its
> quirks?

It would make modifying the configuration from GUI wrappers easier.

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058 at bigpond.net.au

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