Slow startup?

[Tez Kamihira]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:43:41 +1000, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> said:
> On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 11:39 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > Thanks for the report.
> > 
> > I've taken out the fqdn call and now just use gethostname, which should
> > be reliably fast.  I also take a username from ~/.bzr.email if it
> > exists, which should be easy for people on all platforms to set.
> > 
> > Having a long real time but a short user+sys is often a dead give away
> > of a DNS or other network timeout, because it shows the program spends a
> > long time just waiting.
> 
> it would be good to stash all global config in ~/.bzr, rather than
> having a bunch of files in ~.
>

Moreover, it would be better to make another option for bzr command line
just like:

   $ bzr -C /another/directory

for bzr's non-shell execution context. If -C is set, bzr should see
/another/directory/.bzr instead of ~/.bzr

Take cgi context, for example.


Cheers,

        - Tez