[darcs-users] Darcs 2.3 beta 3 (interim)

[Trent W. Buck]

Duncan Coutts <duncan at haskell.org> writes:

> That's the problem. [.cabal/config] gets created automatically the
> first time you run any interesting command, like 'cabal update'. If
> you create it manually first then it will not be overwritten, but on
> the other hand you'll likely not add in the appropriate fields like
> the server to use.

Is there any reason that default values can't be set in the cabal code,
so that .cabal/config can even be empty and still have the default
behaviour?

By comparison, if I create ~/.w3m/config which just contains
"show_cookie false", that doesn't then set user_agent to the empty
string -- it uses a fallback value hardcoded in the source.