hg required proxy by default?

[Benoit Boissinot]

On 12/29/06, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/27/06, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/27/06, Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Do you have http_proxy environment variable set ?
> >
> > Hmm... I did. Removing fix the problem. Good catch! Thanks.
>
> Just wondering. Since http_proxy can be configured in hgrc, any good
> reasons we still need to rely on env variables? IMHO, hgrc looks like
> a better place for this.

It is standard unix behaviour to look at this variable, I think it is
better to have a central place to put proxy information instead of
configuring each and every application.

Cheers,

Benoit