Re: [fossil-users] autosync from GUI

2014-06-08 Thread Ron Wilson
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Scott Robison sc...@casaderobison.com wrote: On Jun 7, 2014 1:27 PM, Ron Wilson ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: For the local UI case, sure, i can see it being useful, but people would

[fossil-users] autosync from GUI

2014-06-07 Thread Eric Rubin-Smith
Is it reasonable to ask that the 'autosync' setting cause artifacts created from the GUI to also be autosynced? I know this would likely increase the latency of the GUI, and would possibly create a series of error cases and/or user interactions that do not need to be handled in the GUI today.

Re: [fossil-users] autosync from GUI

2014-06-07 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Eric Rubin-Smith eas@gmail.com wrote: I know this would likely increase the latency of the GUI, and would possibly create a series of error cases and/or user interactions that do not need to be handled in the GUI today. But I believe that today's behavior

Re: [fossil-users] autosync from GUI

2014-06-07 Thread Eric Rubin-Smith
Stephan Beal wrote: I know this would likely increase the latency of the GUI, and would possibly create a series of error cases and/or user interactions that do not need to be handled in the GUI today. But I believe that today's behavior nevertheless violates the principle of least

Re: [fossil-users] autosync from GUI

2014-06-07 Thread Ron Wilson
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Eric Rubin-Smith eas@gmail.com wrote: Two of Fossil's self-proclaimed major benefits are: (a) its GUI and (b) its autosync feature. That the GUI does not attempt to implement autosync at all *is* surprising. Note that in non-tiny teams, there is often a

Re: [fossil-users] autosync from GUI

2014-06-07 Thread Ron Wilson
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: For the local UI case, sure, i can see it being useful, but people would also expect it to work remotely, and it often wouldn't. When running the local UI, that is seen as part of the local client, but when accessing a

Re: [fossil-users] autosync from GUI

2014-06-07 Thread Scott Robison
On Jun 7, 2014 1:27 PM, Ron Wilson ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: For the local UI case, sure, i can see it being useful, but people would also expect it to work remotely, and it often wouldn't. When running the local UI,