hg-extra for fedora

Mads Kiilerich mads at kiilerich.com
Fri Nov 12 09:20:56 CST 2010


On 11/12/2010 02:21 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>> Alternatively the package could place the extension files in _the_ hgext folder. That would allow simple configuration with just "pbranch=".
>
> Putting them in the hgext folder feels like *really* bad advice - what happens if the extension becomes part of the tarball?

If the extension becomes a part of the tarball (and thus a part of the 
mercurial package) we would get a nice collision between the two 
packages and we would avoid confusion and it would be obvious that the 
conflict had to be handled somehow - for example by letting the 
mercurial package automatically replace the extension package.

I agree that manually dropping files in hgext is a very bad idea.

/Mads


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