[fossil-users] Current status on hooks?

2011-09-10 Thread Remigiusz Modrzejewski
Hi, I'd like to know where we are in the topic of hooks. Their lack is one of the major setbacks of using Fossil. The last time I've noticed a discussion on their topic it was said, that it's blocked by inability to start background processes on Windows. Now there is a way to run Fossil itself

Re: [fossil-users] Current status on hooks?

2011-09-10 Thread Richard Hipp
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Remigiusz Modrzejewski l...@maxnet.org.pl wrote: Hi, I'd like to know where we are in the topic of hooks. Their lack is one of the major setbacks of using Fossil. The last time I've noticed a discussion on their topic it was said, that it's blocked by

Re: [fossil-users] Current status on hooks?

2011-09-10 Thread Remigiusz Modrzejewski
On Sep 10, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: (3) Use the FTS4 full-text search engine of SQLite to implement full-text search over the entire repository history. Ha, that was the next thing I was going to ask ;) But unfortunately I'm unable to contribute any programming time this month

Re: [fossil-users] Current status on hooks?

2011-09-10 Thread Ron Wilson
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: The hook mechanism should include a delay.  This is because client-to-server push operations can occur in multiple stateless steps, and we really want to wait and run the hooks after all steps of the push operation are

Re: [fossil-users] Current status on hooks?

2011-09-10 Thread Gé Weijers
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Richard Hipp wrote: The hook mechanism should include a delay.  This is because client-to-server push operations can occur in multiple stateless steps, and we really want to wait and run the hooks after all steps of the push operation are complete.  So, for example,

Re: [fossil-users] Current status on hooks?

2011-09-10 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: (1) Making Fossil more RESTful, and adding JSON replies. Stephan Beal is already working on this, but I'm sure he'd like to have collaborators. +1 on that second part :). i made fairly good progress on this on

Re: [fossil-users] Current status on hooks?

2011-09-10 Thread Ron Wilson
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Gé Weijers g...@weijers.org wrote: I don't like timers like that, a single server may have clients on fast... It's been a while since I looked at the protocol specs, but the client usually maintains (implicit) state in this type of protocol, and could very

Re: [fossil-users] Current status on hooks?

2011-09-10 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Ron Wilson ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: In term so f invoking the post hook, I think a timer would be needed. That can't work in CGI mode, though, only in server mode and only if you don't kill the server after committing. :/ One of the big hurdles in

Re: [fossil-users] Current status on hooks?

2011-09-10 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.comwrote: One of the big hurdles in implementing triggers, i think, has been platform portability. s/triggers/hooks/g -- - stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/