Supporting configuration files in ~/.config/bazaar?

[Andrew Bennetts]

jbowtie at amathaine.com wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Max Bowsher <maxb at f2s.com> wrote:
> >
> > What's the payoff from moving this directory to justify all the work,
> > and Bazaar users worldwide needing to retrain their fingers?
> >
> 
> Well, users on other platforms or running multiple versions already
> have to type other paths anyway. Documentation should always refer to
> BZR_HOME anyways so long as Bazaar is cross-platform. We're just
> setting a new default value for BZR_HOME; hopefully the release notes
> will remind to explicitly set it if you want to continue to use the
> old location.
> 
> The payoff is that all the admin tools people use will now work
> correctly with Bazaar since it follows XDG standards - things like
> user migrations, backups, and provisioning new accounts will be a bit
> more seamless.

And I think that “~/.config/bazaar” is less likely to be confused with
“.bzr” directories (which is a pretty small benefit, but it was one that
I was wishing for recently).

I'm personally about +0 on this change: if we can manage the transition
so that virtually no user is nagged by bzr to change something that was
already working just fine (I agree with Eli's mail), and someone cares
enough to write the patch, then I think we may as well do it.

-Andrew.