Comments on defunct: Upcoming changes to mozconfig detection

I filed bug 684782 with a patch.

Count me as another request for $srcdir/mozconfig....

2011-09-05T20:03:19.150+05:30

Count me as another request for $srcdir/mozconfig. (I'll try to find the relevant bug and somehow or other express this there.) It's not that I mind $srcdir/.mozconfig overmuch, it's that I like being able to see the mozconfig file in directory listings and such.

Tony: no, though there have been multiple requests...

2011-09-04T16:41:34.896+05:30

Tony: no, though there have been multiple requests to add it back.

oops... %srcdir%/mozconfig. That silly blog ate my...

2011-09-02T21:49:29.056+05:30

oops... %srcdir%/mozconfig. That silly blog ate my angle-bracketed srcdir.

What about /mozconfig (without the leading dot in ...

2011-09-02T21:47:21.840+05:30

What about /mozconfig (without the leading dot in mozconfig)? Still supported or not?.

Yeah, but objdir itself is the result of .mozconfi...

2011-08-26T02:19:37.215+05:30

Yeah, but objdir itself is the result of .mozconfig (at least in mine)

So my 11-year-old $HOME/.mozconfig will be broken? Awww.

I used to use one of those locations! Nowadays I h...

2011-08-24T16:24:18.356+05:30

I used to use one of those locations! Nowadays I hack the script to find .mozconfig in my objdir instead, which is a much more sensible place to put it.