We tell people all the time that enabling extensions is not a scary
thing to do, but we don't make it easy enough for an absolute novice
to do so. When they see a suggestion to do "hg extfoo bar", the error
message tells them "see hg help extensions", but that help page
doesn't actually tell them where configuration files are.
Furthermore, the big warning about why extensions aren't enabled by
default should be pushed down a little bit. Most of the extensions
shipped by hg are not all that scary, and some very basic and useful
cosmetic extensions like graphlog, color, pager, and progress, should
be enabled for many hg users.
Currently, a number of commands and help topics mention the user hgrc
file in different ways. Among these are following:
1. .hgrc - "please specify your commit editor/username in your .hgrc
file", bookmarks, color, hgk, pager, hg help environment
2. $HOME/.hgrc - hg help paths, hgrc(5), hg(1)
3. ~/.hgrc - hgrc(5)
In addition to being inconsistent, none of these make sense on
Windows. This patch replaces the above with a more general term of
"[your] configuration file".
Remove the `install_package_data' subclass of `install_data' and use
the `package_data' functionality provided by distutils instead. As
package data must be located within the package directory, the data
files are now generated in the build directory.
To simplify the functionality of this change, the top-level `doc' and
`templates' directories have been moved into the `mercurial' package
directory.
