On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Max Battcher wrote: > 2009/3/24 Eric Kow <[email protected]>: > > Hi Kevin, > > > > Haven't heard from you in a while. Note that we've merged the lists, > > so any discussion to darcs-devel actually belongs in darcs-users now. > > > > I'm inclined to agree with Kevin about leaving the actual behaviour > > as is. I wouldn't mind a help text that more strongly encouraged the > > use of ~/.darcs/author or DARCS_EMAIL. > > > > In general, I tend to be nervous about setting global things > > automatically, because I suspect that what tends to happen is that > > users don't notice it and the system becomes a lot more magical and > > less transparent. Not sure if I'm making a lot of sense, though. > > Possible compromise: What about a simple y/n question after the > prompt: "Darcs has noticed that you haven't set a global default, > would you like to set this as your default? [yN]"
I don't think this is a good idea. That question can quickly become annoying and people may choose to answer y just to get rid of it without thinking of the consequences of setting that value globally. I think a better approach would be the one I presented in the email I wrote earlier. -- Dan _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
