Of chickens, eggs, and shadows thereof

[Masklinn]

On 19 Jun 2009, at 16:59 , Isaac Jurado wrote:
>> On 19 juin 2009, at 08:23, Cedric Duval <cedricduval at free.fr> wrote:
>>> 1/ explain how to enable an extension in a general manner
>> If you want to go for UI simplicity, hg should have an extension-
>> management command (at least for builtin exts) so that people don't
>> need to muck aroud with .hgrc just because they want to enable
>> bookmarks or record.
>>
>> A configuration command too.
>
> Is it really that hard to edit a text file?
Yes and no, to start with. It requires that you know there's a text  
file to edit (or even create), and that you know where it's supposed  
to live. While that's probably a reflex if you live in Linux, *BSD or  
Solaris, it might not be if you tend to use Windows or OSX (yes OSX is  
a full Unix, but it's also an OS with a history of CLI).

>  In my opinion, of somebody
> is wise enough to understand, and therefore, use version control
> (furthermore, distributed version control); it is also capable of
> writing a few lines of text.
And your opinion is wrong, or at least incomplete. I've taught graphic  
designers (who also did AS coding) to use VCS for their AS files at my  
previous job, they had no problem understanding the gains of that, but  
wouldn't have guessed they were supposed to go edit text files at (as  
far as they were concerned) random locations on their own.