[fossil-users] Avoiding problems with fossil default Makefile

2011-07-20 Thread Ben Summers
I'm concerned that typing 'make' on obscure platforms builds subtly broken binaries. For example, on Solaris, it'll build one which truncates your passwords to 8 characters. I propose that we whitelist platforms where the default Makefile is known to work, and force the use of ./configure for

Re: [fossil-users] Avoiding problems with fossil default Makefile

2011-07-20 Thread Stephan Beal
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Ben Summers wrote: > I'm concerned that typing 'make' on obscure platforms builds subtly broken > binaries. For example, on Solaris, it'll build one which truncates your > passwords to 8 characters. > That's not broken, though - that's the feature set provided b

Re: [fossil-users] Avoiding problems with fossil default Makefile

2011-07-20 Thread Ben Summers
On 20 Jul 2011, at 12:54, Stephan Beal wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Ben Summers wrote: > >> I'm concerned that typing 'make' on obscure platforms builds subtly broken >> binaries. For example, on Solaris, it'll build one which truncates your >> passwords to 8 characters. >> >

Re: [fossil-users] Avoiding problems with fossil default Makefile

2011-07-20 Thread Stephan Beal
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Ben Summers wrote: > I had terrible problems getting fossil to work, because it was silently > truncating my 10 character passwords to 8 and I couldn't authenticate with > the server. Regardless of the reasons for this breakage, it's an extremely > bad user experi

Re: [fossil-users] Supporting markwon syntax for wiki

2011-07-20 Thread Bill Burdick
2011/5/24 Natacha Porté > As a fossil user, I would love to have the option to use Markdown in the > wiki (with the option of dumbing down to forbid inline HTML which might > be unsafe -- exactly the same option as it exists today). > +1 ___ fossil-use

Re: [fossil-users] Supporting markwon syntax for wiki

2011-07-20 Thread Eric
On Wed, July 20, 2011 6:49 pm, Bill Burdick wrote: > 2011/5/24 Natacha Porté > >> As a fossil user, I would love to have the option to use Markdown in the >> wiki (with the option of dumbing down to forbid inline HTML which might >> be unsafe -- exactly the same option as it exists today). >> > >

Re: [fossil-users] Supporting markwon syntax for wiki

2011-07-20 Thread Stephan Beal
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Eric wrote: > Oh, for heaven's sake! We did this before: > +1 (several times) Shameless plug: because of this very issue i ended up writing a wiki-agnostic wiki manager which has replaced several of my larger fossil wikis: http://whiki.wanderinghorse.net/ that

[fossil-users] The hooks issue

2011-07-20 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:18:11PM +0100, Eric wrote: > which leaves us with "should fossil have hooks" which still leads to > complex interface issues. Sorry if I open the issue again... but the only trouble is the Windows platform, on spawning processes without terminals, isn't it? I once point

Re: [fossil-users] Supporting markwon syntax for wiki

2011-07-20 Thread Remigiusz Modrzejewski
On Jul 20, 2011, at 21:18 , Eric wrote: >> +1 > > Oh, for heaven's sake! We did this before: > > 1) there's no pleasing everybody (we all have our different favourites) But most people agree that any of markdown/restructuredtext/dokuwiki/whatever simple syntax is nicer than html-based markup.

Re: [fossil-users] Avoiding problems with fossil default Makefile

2011-07-20 Thread Steve Bennett
On 20/07/2011, at 7:16 PM, Ben Summers wrote: > > I'm concerned that typing 'make' on obscure platforms builds subtly broken > binaries. For example, on Solaris, it'll build one which truncates your > passwords to 8 characters. > > I propose that we whitelist platforms where the default Makefi

Re: [fossil-users] Supporting markwon syntax for wiki

2011-07-20 Thread Steve Bennett
On 21/07/2011, at 6:14 AM, Remigiusz Modrzejewski wrote: > > On Jul 20, 2011, at 21:18 , Eric wrote: > >>> +1 >> >> Oh, for heaven's sake! We did this before: >> >> 1) there's no pleasing everybody (we all have our different favourites) > > But most people agree that any of markdown/restructu

Re: [fossil-users] tar file is different then zip file

2011-07-20 Thread Gé Weijers
I have submitted a bug report on this issue. The 'tar' format has been extended over the years, and it's now a fairly interesting mess. File names over 100 bytes are split into two. Posix requires this to be done at a '/' (which you can delete). Fossil splits it anywhere, which confuses all th

Re: [fossil-users] question

2011-07-20 Thread Richard Hipp
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Zhang, Jenny wrote: > *Hi,* > > * * > > *I would like to know if fossil can handel version control for binary > files?* > Yes. For example I store all of my presentation slides (odp files generated by open office) in a Fossil repository. There are also some bi

Re: [fossil-users] Supporting markwon syntax for wiki

2011-07-20 Thread Ron Wilson
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Remigiusz Modrzejewski wrote: > > On Jul 20, 2011, at 21:18 , Eric wrote: >> >> 1) there's no pleasing everybody (we all have our different favourites) > > But most people agree that any of markdown/restructuredtext/dokuwiki/whatever > simple syntax is nicer than