Good support for sending email would be wonderful. We are getting along by running rss2email, far from ideal but adequate.
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 1:55 AM Baptiste Daroussin < baptiste.darous...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-08-30 10:27 GMT+02:00 Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com>: > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Baptiste Daroussin > > <baptiste.darous...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Number #1 is the inhability to run "external" hooks easily, like > >> execute this script each time a sync is done, for before checking in, > >> run this scripts. (personnally I can live with that) > > > > > > Management summary: that's primarily because (A) it's difficult to do > > portably in a small package like Fossil and (B) because it opens up many > > more potential failure cases than currently exist. (e.g. what happens to > a > > commit if an http connection to an external server, used by a trigger, > > cannot be established?) Many hosting environments do not allow hosted > > scripts/apps to establish outbound connections with external servers, > which > > inherently castrates such features, as well as your next one... > > > > That said, Fossil does have basic hooks support in the form of TH1/TCL > > scripts, but i've never used them. Jan or Joe can certainly say more > about > > them. > > > > Well last I tried there were not really useful and as for example in > case of post bug report because of them being run with reporters > (whcih makes sense given how they are designed) they were limited > deeply limited in what they could do... I end it up back in the time > at making them just to a http call to a local cgi which will then run > a bunch complex fossil cli command to be able to grab the information > I need (and send mails) it was in the end so complicated I gave up and > switched the repo to github back in the time :( > > >> > >> Number #3 can be related soehow to number #1 is the inability of the > >> bug tracker to send mails. > > > > > > Right - very closely related. Speaking to diverse mail servers reliably > is > > difficult to implement, and really needs an external mail API provider. > > There is no _portable_ external provider API for sending mails. Doing so > on > > Unix, via sendmail, is simple enough, but fossil aims to provide all of > its > > features on all of its platforms, insofar as possible. (AFAIK, symlinks > is > > the only feature which doesn't achieve this ideal.) IMO this is the right > > approach - limit fossil to features which are only available on all of > its > > platforms (AFAIK i'm one of the few here who believes, for that reason, > that > > fossil should not support symlinks). > > > >> > >> Well my experience is quite the opposite. Most if not all projects I > >> have been working relies on multi line logs. On some of them like all > >> FreeBSD's repositories (svn and git) I cannot even imagine getting > >> though history without multi time view. > > > > > > My point was not so much about the multiline support, but the lack (in my > > experience) of need for book-length commit messages. Without those, the > lack > > of multi-line support is moot. > > > >> Maybe that could be done via a new "log" which will be a kind of alias > >> for fossil timeline -t ci ? (seriously when you come from other VCS > >> the fossil timeline is disturbing :D) > > > > > > Personally, i've always been against Fossil doing _any_ sort of > manipulation > > of commit message storage or display (e.g. word-wrapping in the > console), as > > it adds a disproportionate amount of complexity. If someone can read > > programming code, they can certainly read commit messages, regardless of > > their formatting. But i am likely in the minority on that point. > > > I 100% agree with you here, if fossil was not manipulating the message > on display the multiline formatting would work out of box (they are > correctly stored) > > Bapt > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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