On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Sune Foldager <sune.folda...@me.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 September, 2009, at 04:49PM, "Benjamin Pollack"
> <benja...@fogcreek.com> wrote:
>>On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:34:21 -0400, Adrian Buehlmann <adr...@cadifra.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> The installer nags the person that does
>>> the install (the admin) to provide details,
>>> that are ineffective for normal users, since the
>>> feature doesn't work as intended for normal
>>> users later on (the details entered affect
>>> only the admin user).
>>>
>>> This is probably calling for a two part install.
>>> First part by admin when doing the
>>> install for all users on a computer, second part
>>> when a user does his first commit ("Hey! You haven't
>>> setup a user name. We need to know this for commiting.
>>> Please enter your details below...").
>>
>>The logical place to do this would be "hgtk commit," which I thought
>>already did do that on the first run. Making the change there also means
>>that Linux and Mac users would benefit as well. Unfortunately, simply
>>running "hg commit" definitely does not prompt. Since, at least
>>currently, Tortoise avoids overriding the behavior of the command-line
>>tools, and because we know that at least the person installing the
>>software probably wants to use it, I personally think that asking for a
>>username and password during install still makes sense.
>
> In many cases, I am sure. Like for the our use of mercurial at work, but how
> about admins installing on behalf of other people? ...hmm I don't know. It
> may also confuse things, as this is in the installer which otherwise does a
> system-wide install. But on the other hand, it doesn't hurt much even if it's
> not used.
Would it be more amenable if it skipped writing the file if the user
does not provide a username? I have an ulterior motive for installing
a user-specific ini file. It would allow us to solve issue #551 in a
way that doesn't brand the entire install as "HG for SVN".
--
Steve Borho
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