On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:26:20PM -0500, Joshua Paine wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 11:46 -0800, Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene wrote: > > If the feature were put in wouldn't it just be "people with old fossil > > needing to update"? > > Yes, but... > > > I'm not sure I get why there's talk of "custom fossil". This is a > > feature that a overwhelming majority want. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Let us please keep a context when using loaded phrases such as "overwhelming majority want". I believe the context for the phrase is a straw poll which was taken by approximately twenty people who subscribe to this mailing list. Likely there are more people than myself who subscribe and did not vote. My unsupported-by-evidence belief is that there are magnitudes more people who use fossil than the twenty or so votes in the straw poll. I doubt that we can accurately extrapolate all users' sentiments from that poll. A download counter at fossil-scm.org may provide a sense of how much fossil is used (of course, each download does not necessarily indicate a new user or users). The current fossil wiki and embedded documentation are fine by me. If people want to add to their own "stuff", they have that capability. I most especially would want never to see, e.g. javascript as a mandatory part of using fossil. Many scripting languages, and javascript particularly, are great holes for inserting code to compromise a machine via the web browser. I prefer my source control management system to present as few risks as possible for code corruption, undesired distribution, or compromise of my users' machines when using the SCM. No doubt I am not alone with that sentiment. ~Michael > > But it's a feature that DRH said some time ago on the fossil site that > he considered and rejected, and since he has stayed out of this > conversation, I conclude that he's sticking to his decision or at best > will reconsider only if some working code appears. > > If one were to implement markdown or some other more complete text > formatting language in C, DRH might still not be willing to include it, > so that route means hoping DRH will change his mind, or settling for a > custom version of fossil. > > -- > Joshua Paine > LetterBlock: Web applications built with joy > http://letterblock.com/ > 301-576-1920 > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users -- Michael McDaniel Portland, Oregon, USA http://trip.autosys.us _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
