"Stephen J. Turnbull" <step...@xemacs.org> writes: > Mark Hammond writes: > > On 22/08/2009 2:46 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > > Possibly - although I would expect the existing section names be reused > > when applied to a versioned file, I'd be more than happy for the hg guys > > to declare new names are appropriate for this. > > If there's already an [Encode] section, that's different. (I don't > details, I'm not that big a Mercurial fan.) But you'd still need a > way to differentiate win32text rules from other encoding rules.
There is a [decode] and an [encode] section: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html#decode-encode The win32text extension works by defining new filters which can then be used like this: [encode] ** = cleverencode: [decode] ** = cleverdecode: (they are "clever" because they skip binary files) >>> True, but how many people will just download the extension and >>> enable it? >> >> In the ideal world, exactly as many people who would read the Python >> developer guide, then download and install the extension based purely >> on that. IOW, it is Python itself setting the policy, so people need >> to make their own decisions based on that, regardless of whether the >> tool enforces it or not. > > You're missing the point. I'm not talking about whether it will work > for Python, I'm talking about the worry that somebody will post a way > cool Python branch and require a private extension, which everybody > will just automatically install and enable, which extension then > proceeds to phone home to Spammer Haven, Inc. with the contents of > your email contact list. That's what I mean by "social engineering," > and why I worry about policy pushback from Mercurial HQ. > > Maybe that's more paranoid than they are.... But it can't hurt your > cause to be ready for that kind of worry. Oh, we try to be very paranoid in Mercurial :-) That's why you don't see any support for copying hgrc files when you clone and why hg wont trust hgrc files not owned by you: it should be safe to do cd ~collegue/src/python hg tip -- Martin Geisler VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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