Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread bch
I have a copy of NetBSD src (and pkgsrc) that I interact with nearly daily if there are specifics of this repo that are needed. On Dec 18, 2014 11:37 AM, "Baruch Burstein" wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: >> >> >> Baruch: Can you pull a /tree from your big repo, do

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Stephan Beal on Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:33:20 +0100: > personally i don't feel that minification would gain us much because > we don't have much css/js, but the points about expiry dates and such > are valid. Yes, the scope of my question was limited to minification only; I think the ex

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 18, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Ron W wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Warren Young wrote: > With today’s fast CPUs, Ajax lets us bring back the native client, for all > practical purposes. > > My concern about JS (and Java) is that it is too powerful. Don’t lump JavaScript and Java tog

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Ron W
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > With today’s fast CPUs, Ajax lets us bring back the native client, for all > practical purposes. My concern about JS (and Java) is that it is too powerful. And web browsers are not properly "sand boxing" active content like JS. I have don

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> >> The biggest thing I expected to find missing — and was surprised to find >> that it is not — is gzip compression on the HTTP layer. That alone will >> help tremendously with multi-

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 18, 2014, at 1:30 PM, Ron W wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > true enough - it's just been a question of effort. We keep the JS to a > minimum (even moreso because it's tedious to add ;). > > Perhaps it is good that it is tedious to add/edit the JS? You mi

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 18, 2014, at 1:29 PM, Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said Stephan Beal on Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:48:03 +0100: > >> That infrastructure was only recently added. Over time, more of those >> resources will be moved into the file-based system. The build process >> bakes those files into the bina

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Ron W wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Stephan Beal > wrote: >> >> true enough - it's just been a question of effort. We keep the JS to a >> minimum (even moreso because it's tedious to add ;). >> > > Perhaps it is good that it is tedious to add/edit th

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Ron W
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > > true enough - it's just been a question of effort. We keep the JS to a > minimum (even moreso because it's tedious to add ;). > Perhaps it is good that it is tedious to add/edit the JS? ___ fossil

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Andy Bradford wrote: > > Who is the target audience for such efforts? Minification is definitely > useful for highly trafficked websites, but is there really a huge > concern about statistics on web page loads when it comes to Javascript > and CSS for Fos

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Stephan Beal on Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:48:03 +0100: > That infrastructure was only recently added. Over time, more of those > resources will be moved into the file-based system. The build process > bakes those files into the binary, but we could have an intermediate > step for minificat

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > There is one other way to solve it, which would let you keep the tree view > without spamming the client with the entire tree on the first /tree page > load: Ajax. > There's been some experimentation with "alternative UIs" using AJAX and th

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 18, 2014, at 12:48 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > i suspect that some of the lower-hanging fruit, like truncating the UUIDs, > would initially give us bigger wins with less effort. Yes, I thought that went without saying. I would have mentioned it in my first email, only I didn’t know if Fo

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > On Dec 18, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > > > It should be compressing, at least based on what i see in cgi.c. > > You skimmed that a bit too fast. I was just commenting that I *expected* > to find that Fossil didn’t gzip its own

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 18, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > It should be compressing, at least based on what i see in cgi.c. You skimmed that a bit too fast. I was just commenting that I *expected* to find that Fossil didn’t gzip its own content, but was surprised to find that it does. gzipped conte

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > Baruch: Can you pull a /tree from your big repo, do a "Save As..." of the > page to a file, check its size, then run gzip across it and check its > compressed size? Also if you can do "grep '__

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > The biggest thing I expected to find missing — and was surprised to find > that it is not — is gzip compression on the HTTP layer. That alone will > help tremendously with multi-MB pages. I wonder if the person reporting > that is counting

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 18, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Martin Gagnon wrote: > For my 5MB that come from firefox Network profiling, it seems to come > from compressed value.. When I save-as the page, I get a 31.7MB html > file. If I gzip this html file, I get a 4.0MB file. You should test with gzip -1, not the default gz

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 18, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > much time was required to generate the page on the server. I'm interested to > know how much time was used to generate some of your multi-megabyte /tree > pages. > > i'd be interested to

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > One way to really save space would be to send only the first 10 or 16 > bytes of the SHA1 hash in the hyperlink for each file, instead of the full > 40 bytes. The SHA1 hashes do not compress well, so making that change > would perhaps make

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > Wow. Are you at liberty to share the rest of the "/stat" page with us? > I posted the link above. It is the netbsd src repo. http://netbsd.sonnenberger.org/stat -- ˙uʍop-ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ 'sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟı

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Martin Gagnon
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:34:51PM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > much time was required to generate the page on the server.  I'm > interested to know how m

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Martin Gagnon
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:47:43AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > Martin & Baruch: > > Thanks for stress-testing Fossil!  I don't have any repositories that are > quite > that big.  In fact, yours appear to be about 100x larger than any that I test > with.  This means that you are much more likely

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: >> >> much time was required to generate the page on the server. I'm >> interested to know how much time was used to generate some of your >> multi-megabyte /tree pages. >> > > i'd be i

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > much time was required to generate the page on the server. I'm interested > to know how much time was used to generate some of your multi-megabyte > /tree pages. > i'd be interested to know what those megs are - maybe we can consolidate sy

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Richard Hipp
Martin & Baruch: Thanks for stress-testing Fossil! I don't have any repositories that are quite that big. In fact, yours appear to be about 100x larger than any that I test with. This means that you are much more likely to hit performance issues, sooner, than I do. Please do watch for pages th

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > > > insofar as i see in cgi.c, it looks like output is always compressed if > possible (based on response code and whether or not is_gzippable() returns > true or not). > Which doesn't tell you much. The Content-Length header is the comp

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Martin Gagnon wrote: > > From firefox Network benchmark, my page is 5.5MB. (not sure if that is > compressed or not) > insofar as i see in cgi.c, it looks like output is always compressed if possible (based on response code and whether or not is_gzippable() return

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Martin Gagnon
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 03:23:02PM +0200, Baruch Burstein wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Baruch Burstein wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Stephan Beal > wrote: > > On Wed, Dec

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Stephan Beal
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > Wow. Are you at liberty to share the rest of the "/stat" page with us? > FYI: the 'dbstat' CLI command shows the same info (or essentially the same). -- - stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "F

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Baruch Burstein wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Baruch Burstein >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: How many separate files are in that project

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Baruch Burstein > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: >>> >>> How many separate files are in that project? >>> >> >> How do I check? >> >> > The /stat page. Example: https:

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Baruch Burstein wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: >> >> How many separate files are in that project? >> > > How do I check? > > The /stat page. Example: https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/stat -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > How many separate files are in that project? > How do I check? -- ˙uʍop-ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ 'sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟı ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Baruch Burstein wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Baruch Burstein > wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Stephan Beal >>> wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:16 AM, S

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Baruch Burstein wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Stephan Beal >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Stephan Beal >>> wrote: Actually... i use the flat view more oft

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Stephan Beal > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Stephan Beal >> wrote: >>> >>> Actually... i use the flat view more often than not. That's probably >>> just historical momentum (and the way m

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Stephan Beal > wrote: >> >> Actually... i use the flat view more often than not. That's probably just >> historical momentum (and the way my old menus are all set up). i wouldn't >> whine about loss of flat

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-18 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:05 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > I think the flat-view functionality should be preserved. (Who knows how > many links to the flat-view exist on various wiki pages, tickets, and > check-in comments.) But I don't see a reason to have it using up valuable > menu-bar space. >

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-16 Thread jungle Boogie
Hi Richard, On 16 December 2014 at 17:05, Richard Hipp wrote: > Given the much improved tree-view functionality > > https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/tree?ci=trunk&mtime > > Is there really any reason to keep the legacy "Flat-View" on the menu bar? > > https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/tre

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-16 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 16, 2014, at 6:05 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > But I don't see a reason to have it using up valuable menu-bar space. Screen real estate is precious. Nuke that sucker. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fos

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-16 Thread Richard Hipp
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Stephan Beal > wrote: >> >> Actually... i use the flat view more often than not. That's probably just >> historical momentum (and the way my old menus are all set up). i wouldn't >> whine about loss of flat

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-16 Thread Stephan Beal
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > > Actually... i use the flat view more often than not. That's probably just > historical momentum (and the way my old menus are all set up). i wouldn't > whine about loss of flat view, but also won't argue for its removal. > flat mode meaning

Re: [fossil-users] Remove flat-view from menu? Was: File age in the tree view

2014-12-16 Thread Stephan Beal
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > Given the much improved tree-view functionality > > https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/tree?ci=trunk&mtime > > Is there really any reason to keep the legacy "Flat-View" on the menu bar? > > https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/tree?ci=tr