Rather than changing the terminal user interface (it will be slightly less nice IMHO due to the extra newline on a prompt) I suggest considering the approach used on the monotone project. A separate interface for automation. Make the human friendly interface friendly to humans and make the automation interface friendly to automation.
Just my 0.02$ On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Ingo Koch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ingo, > > This seems like a reasonable change to Fossil as long as adding it doesn't > break anything we don't understand (I can't believe it would). > > No, it won't break anything. The only difference is that on the commandline > the users answer has to be entered on a new line and not on the same line as > the prompt. > > Propose it as a change and get Richard Hipp's feedback. Maybe you should > try to become a Fossil contributor and make the change yourself so there > doesn't have to be a custom Fossil build. > > I've already added a ticket as a feature request a while ago. I won't > conjecture about the reasons not to include this change. After all it is > Richard's project. > I'll try to always include a modified Windows binary release of the latest > official Fossil release version into my project. Anyone who doesn't trust > this exe might compile it himself. ;-) > > As I mentioned, SharpFossil and WinFossil are far away from beeing complete > or bug free. And as long as there is one user (me ;-) ) it doesn't make > sense to beg Richard again and again to change anything in Fossil to support > SharpFossil. > > The main purpose of my original post to the list was to encourage Windows > users of Fossil to try SharpFossil/WinFossil and to get feedback about it > and may be to get people involved in further development (for me, it is a > spare time project and unfortunately not evolving fast enough) . > > Ingo > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
