Hello there! First of all I want to thank to the authors of fossil. I have discovered it recently and I am very pleasantly surprised with what such a small tool offer.
Yet, I have an idea or wish that I am almost sure wont be big trouble to implement. If there are command for exporting a fossil repository attached with fossil executable in a self extracting archive then fossil could be used as an installer for distributing programs in development version with a update feature through http protocol. A final user of such installer would extract it in any local folder and automatically called fossil open command would be executed to create working tree, and after that would be executed program to finish setup process in new created tree (for a post installation process). Developer should be able to define post-installation script and destination folder suggestion to be given to the final user. This command would than create a self extracting archive which would contain fossil executable, repository and a program that should be called after extracting. That program would call fossil open command and post-install script which could be a member of working tree. That way fossil will become capable for creating installers. I hope someone would find this idea as implementable and usable extension to fossil and implement it. Anyway with or without implementation of this idea fossil is great tool already.. Vitalije _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
