[MERGE][PQM] Re: Config-manager

[Daniel Watkins]

Hi Nicholas,

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:51:50 +0200
Nicholas Allen <nick.allen at onlinehome.de> wrote:
> I'm trying to setup PQM for a personal project. When I run it I get a
> problem that it can't import config-manager. Why does PQM need
> config-manager in order to run?
It is currently possible to get PQM to use a config-manager recipe at
some point during its functioning.  This functionality is currently on
its way out (provided lifeless is happy with this happening).

> ImportError: No module named pybaz
Ben has covered this in his email.

> Why do I need pybaz? I assume this is for the old bazaar (before
> bazaar-ng later renamed to bzr) and I don't need this at all.
> Shouldn't it work without this? Only if my PQM config file needs it
> then it should try to load it.
I agree.  The attached shifts the import of config-manager into only
those places that need it, which will hopefully get around this problem.

> There is basically no user documentation on config-manager or PQM. I
> guess Bazaar is the only project that uses these as I have spent a
> long while trying to get this to work but to no avail. I complained
> about this months ago but the documentation status hasn't appeared to
> change at all since then.
I'm spending this summer working on PQM.  Included in this will be work
on the documentation, though I intend this to happen once some of the
more obvious code cleanup has happened (as some of these will affect
the docs fairly fundamentally).

> Since this is one of the workflows promoted by bzr, it would be nice
> if it were actually possible for the average user to setup a
> gatekeeper style workflow using these programs.
I absolutely agree, and hopefully will be able to do something to work
towards this.

Regards,
-- 
Daniel Watkins (Odd_Bloke)