On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:43 PM, altufa...@mail.com wrote:
> Hi DRH, is there any reason content of these files can't be stored
> in _FOSSIL_ database itself?
The manifest and manifest.uuid files are not used by Fossil. Fossil
makes those files available for the convenience of the application and
the application's makefile. For example, the makefile for SQLite
extracts information from its manifest and manifest.uuid in order to
generate the sqlite3_sourceid() interface.
http://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/libversion.html
The makefile for fossil itself also uses these files to construct the
version information that is displayed when you type "fossil version".
If this information were in the _FOSSIL_ file or was only available
using the "fossil" command, then you would not be able to build either
SQLite or Fossil from the raw "ZIP Archive" download or without having
a fossil executable on hand. Hence, it is important that the manifest
and manifest.uuid files exist.
D. Richard Hipp
d...@hwaci.com
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