Of chickens, eggs, and shadows thereof

[Masklinn]

On 19 Jun 2009, at 11:18 , 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.
>
That's pretty sad

> 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?
Well first you have to find the doc telling you where and what the  
text file is (or more commonly where you're supposed to create it in  
the first place, or even that there's a text file in the first place)  
and then you have to read, understand and use the "well-known  
configuration format" whereas if you have a basic CLI in front of that  
you might not have all the power of the raw config file, but most of  
the time you won't have to learn much (if anything).

And new command and its quirks? A series of basic questions you answer  
isn't really quirky, and is pretty common.