Should bzr aliases possibly be in their own file?

[Martin Pool]

On 20 October 2010 04:52, Michael Gliwinski
<Michael.Gliwinski at henderson-group.com> wrote:
> All this sounds awesome, good to see things happening here.
>
> While talking about config files, etc. have you considered the XDG base
> directory specification [1]?  More and more programs are moving to it as it
> provides some compelling benefits.  Example:
>
>  - system and user specific dirs with well defined precedence, overridable via
> environment variables
>  - separation of real config data from caches, etc. allows e.g. easier backups
> or versioning of config files
>
> It is simple-enough to implement if you don't want additional dependencies but
> there is also the PyXDG library for accessing freedesktop.org standards
> (including base dir spec) [2].

Yes, we have thought of it and
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/195397> asks for this.
There are no particular blockers, it just needs someone to finish it
off.

-- 
Martin