First post. Hi! I've been lurking along, following the discussion here.
Common thread is a desire for 'more fossil'. I'm in this camp myself. But I see the attraction of the core fossil application. It works perfectly for a fairly close-knit community, and it follows a philosophy that's been working for decades now. One that is, if anything, more effective as it becomes less fashionable. Let me make a suggestion: what we need is not more fossil, it is less fossil. I wrote Dr. Richard Hipp about this earlier, his response was positive enough that I felt encouraged to bring it to the community. For my own projects, I've switched to fossil. It's the obvious choice, we're using SQLite in preference to the old pile o' files already. The fossil codebase has all the core algorithms for storing deltas in a single database file, merging, deduplication, Merkle hashing, key signature management, extensible metadata... I don't have to sell you on the virtues of this VCS! I would benefit greatly from being able to use this excellent collection of SQLite best practices and algorithms, the same way I use SQLite: as a static or linked library, one which can be wrapped in various FFIs for VMs, or linked directly from a systems language. My own case would call this from LuaJIT, what matters is everyone can be happy. fossil proper can stay attuned to the SQLite/Tcl/Tk alliance, as it should, and adventurers could wire it to mailing lists, wikis, forums. I think this would help fossil really stand out. Just the fact that here we have tools to read and write git to a single-file database, that's huge! Tools for revision control would be a real boon to applications already using SQLite as an AFF. I could go on. I always feel some trepidation towards what amounts to asking other people for free work. I feel this refactoring could benefit fossil as well as my own software. I'd be a part of such an effort as soon as anything halfway plausible was compiling, if invited. Sincerely, -Sam Putman -- Special Circumstances
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