[MERGE] Config.get_user_section() API

[Ian Clatworthy]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 11:25 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>> That is better than what we currently have ('write a plugin') but it
>> doesn't scale. As explained in http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrHooks, Hg gets
>> around this by using an optional tagging syntax:
> 
> I really object to this claim. Its not better than what we have. Its
> different. It falls over really badly in sufficiently many ways that *I*
> don't want to have to deal with bug reports that /will/ result from
> having it in the core.

Can you give an example please?

I appreciate that you find writing plugins really easy - you know Python
and you know Bazaar's API. For someone who knows neither (like 80% of
the development community), adding a line or two to a config file is an
order of magnitude easier.

Your idea about putting the scripts into a directory is probably better
still. I'll go with that, assuming we're happy to make an exception to
our rule about "users shouldn't touch anything under .bzr".

Ian C.