Hi List, would it be possible to add a feature like the "good old" keyword expansion from SVN (in fact even from CVS) to fossil?
For scripts there's no possibility to embedd the version or any kind of additional information at the moment. Yes, there is (maybe nowadays...) the manifest and the manifest.uuid to get that information at runtime, but that means distributing those files additionally with each script. fossil and sqlite solve that somehow by being compiled :-) -- they just compile the information from those manifest files in their final executable, but thats not a reasonable approach for scripts that are executed by an interpreter. Here we know the version only when the files stay in their check-out folder, nearby the mainfest files. Something like the svn:keywords for a bunch of reasonable 'variables' would be a very helpful addition IMHO. The feature should be off by default and should be enabled on a per file (and maybe per keyword) basis on demand. (See svn:keywords and/or hg keyword extension for working examples in other version control software) What do you think? Thanks and cheers, Tino _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
