Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-05 Thread Steve Landers
Put differently, what can’t you do with “fossil ui” that you can do with a native client? Drag and drop is the only one I can think of and I suspect that’s a good thing. -- Steve On 6 Aug 2018, 9:17 AM +0800, Richard Hipp , wrote: > On 8/5/18, Gilles wrote: > > 2. There's no maintained GUI for

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-05 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/5/18, Gilles wrote: > 2. There's no maintained GUI for Fossil. I would argue that running "fossil ui" is your GUI. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-05 Thread Gilles
Thanks for the info, but like 90% of deskop users, I run Windows. I gave up on deskop Linux, even though I give it a try every year or so just to check it out. I'm not arguing. It's just that Fossil is such a great SCM application that I guess it would benefit even more users if it were availa

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-05 Thread John Pateman
Re Your point (2) There may not be a GUI for Windows (I don’t use Windows) but there is is a nice ‘Tortoise-like’ GUI for Fossil on macOS - Snail Fossil. > On 5 Aug 2018, at 21:14, Gilles wrote: > > On 05/08/2018 22:02, Richard Hipp wrote: >> How does adding an extra component and a bunch of

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-05 Thread Gilles
On 05/08/2018 22:02, Richard Hipp wrote: How does adding an extra component and a bunch of new interfaces make a program easier to build? I think that the key to building complex systems is to keep them as simple as possible. If you can omit a DLL/shared library and all the maintenance and inte

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-05 Thread Gilles
On 05/08/2018 21:28, Stephan Beal wrote: Very, very long story very, very short: reimplementing fossil as a library requires a massive effort. Too bad. Thanks for the info. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fo

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-05 Thread Richard Hipp
On 8/5/18, Gilles wrote: > > I'm only a casual programmer, but I assume it would have made it easier > to build a GUI by calling functions within the DLL. How does adding an extra component and a bunch of new interfaces make a program easier to build? I think that the key to building complex sys

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-05 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 8:56 PM Gilles wrote: > Hello, > > Out of curiosity, why isn't Fossil split into the engine in a DLL and a > CLI in an EXE, like SQLite? > > I'm only a casual programmer, but I assume it would have made it easier > to build a GUI by calling functions within the DLL. > > At

[fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-05 Thread Gilles
Hello, Out of curiosity, why isn't Fossil split into the engine in a DLL and a CLI in an EXE, like SQLite? I'm only a casual programmer, but I assume it would have made it easier to build a GUI by calling functions within the DLL. At this point, it seems like all of the Windows GUI (Fuel,

Re: [fossil-users] "fossil gdiff" doesn't launch WinMerge; fossil.exe with autocompletion?

2018-08-05 Thread Gilles
On 05/08/2018 05:47, Warren Young wrote: It is not correct to say that Fossil had no output in this case. Its output was the exit status code, which was zero, meaning there was no failure. I understand that it's too late now that some scripts would break if diff/gdiff returned something like "N