On 25.04.2008 14:40, Doug Philips wrote: > On Friday, April 25, 2008, at 08:11AM, "Adrian Buehlmann" wrote: >> On 25.04.2008 13:56, TK Soh wrote: > ...(Registry editing elided)... >>> This sort of back-door hack is not recommended. No one can be sure >>> what damage it can do down the road. >> This is plain FUD. >> >>> Since the worm is already out of the can, if you must, then please >>> understand that it will have to be done at your own risk. >> This is neither a worm nor risky at all. >> >> Technical details can be found here: >> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776858.aspx >> >> But using TorrtoiseHG or Mercurial is indeed at your own risk, >> as the license clearly states that. > > So you have tested 0.3 and 0.4rc1 to make sure that after your > anti-FUD registry hackery their uninstallers work properly? > It would have been good to say if you tested that or not...
What do you think a tool does if it tries to delete a non-existing registry key? Format your harddisk? Hopefully not, since the installation of those registry keys could have failed, too. > (And no, I have no intention of testing that myself, I am > interested in making sure it works out-of-the-box with > controls now available in 0.4rc1, since I do not want to > have to "sell" registry hacking to my team along with > Mercurial and TortoiseHG... > > --Doug Yes, that is entirely up to you. Of course you are free to see registry editing as hackery. You are also free to ignore this information about changing the registry and it may indeed not be the right thing for those not being familiar using regedit. That's why I wrote in my post "if you are not afraid of using regedit". But some are not, like many who develop Software for Windows. And it's not rocket science either. --Adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
