Quote from: citizen on May 03, 2011, 07:19:50 PM

When I was setting up the bitcoin.exe with -server argument, and had to create/edit the config file, it was a little confusing. I was getting help on IRC, but the syntax of the config file entries were given to me wrong, so I wound up wasting a lot of time over something very simple.

What about having a config file and having all settings displayed in there. Lines could either be commented-out or features could be set to OFF or values just be blank. I remember when some programs would use .ini files for these sort of things, with different headings for different categories of settings. It was actually kind of convenient.

IMHO the whole install+configure process needs to be much easier. Especially the list of options (of which many are not listed on --help for reasons unknown). Though honestly, a lot of that is done on the os-package level which is an entirely different topic.