on Feb 01, 2013, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > >I'm not sure if I understand what's being said, but if I do, I would disagree >that >Fossil sans networking support would be "nearly useless". > > > > >I use Fossil locally exclusively. I may be in the minority. I do not know. > >"Nearly" meaning essentially "for everyone who uses it with remote repos AND >everyone >who uses the built-in UI," which covers the vast majority of users. Since the >whole >UI is an HTML interface, networking is more or less implied. Without the >networking >support "fossil server" and "fossil ui" could not work.
Good point. As I use fossil UI, I do actually use its networking facilities. > >The issue of static linking is not an app-level problem, it's an >environment-level >problem. Fossil aims to be as platform-neutral as possible and, like the C >standard >itself, does not address the minutia of platform-specific quirks like dynamic >vs >static linking. i apologize if i seem a bit riled up/annoyed about this, but >the >OP keeps asking (trolling, it seems!) again and again, despite being given >plentiful >information and links where he can follow up on it, "why can't I build this >statically?" >The answer (again) is "you _can_, but on Linux, Solaris 10/OpenSolaris, and >possibly >other platforms, you _will_ run into platform-level limitations which we >cannot fix >at the application level." > >-- >----- stephan beal >http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/http://gplus.to/sgbeal While I use SQLite statically, Fossil I do not. I look at Fossil as a user level program and SQLite as a library. ^K > > > >_______________________________________________ >fossil-users mailing list >fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org >http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
