Vitalije, always glad to meet another fossil enthusiast. The idea you've posed is an interesting one. While I do not speak for the development team, I'd have ot say that I think it's the sort of thing that would be great for someone to build _around_ fossil instead of _into_ fossil. Just my two cents. That said, I'm now thinking about doing just that. Thanks for the idea. ;-)
-Cliff On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 05:03:13PM +0100, јеромонах Виталије spake: > 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 _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
