Robert Ledger wrote: > If anyone has any > thoughts on this or a wish list of features speak up now (or forever > hold your peace:) > Yeah, I'll add my 2c worth ;)
I think Creole is the right idea. There are no end to the variations on Wiki syntax and who thinks what is best. So if you're working with a bunch of different projects, there is no end to the number of variations you have to learn. In the end there are only three 'standards' that matter: Wikimedia, because it has the largest install & use base by at least an order of magnitude; reStructuredText, because it enjoys broad use in blogs/CMS and also in the scripting community; and Creole, because it is the only reasonable attempt at a Wiki syntax standard. > I was thinking that it might be a good idea to provide a parser > interface so that custom wiki implementations could easily > be integrated with core fossil. > At the point that you need extensions to be able to clone & use a Fossil repository, the value of Fossil is diminished. I've played with hg and bzr to evaluate them, and keep hitting this problem: I want to clone some OSS repository, but it won't work on my system without mucking with the configuration file, installing some extensions/plugins, mutter obscenities because they don't support Windows, etc. Fossil has the right idea - it just works, and it's simple. Well thats MHO. YMMV. With regard to the JavaScript musings of others ... why extend Fossil with javascript, qtscript, whatever? That would just introduce another back-end scripting language beside TH1 (Tcl-like scripting). If server-side scripting is absolutely required (and you intended embedding your script plugins in the repository so that the repo is self-contained) why not use Jim (http://jim.berlios.de/) which is a lightweight embeddable Tcl interpreter? It takes about 10 minutes to get Jim working and add your own custom commands. And that's on a Texas Instruments DSP, so I wouldn't worry about portability ;p Twylite _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
