On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, all, > > Back to the topic of custom pages... > > tonight i've been adding some functions to th1 to make it useful for > creating custom pages (namely SELECT-only access to the db), and i'm about > ready to start plugging that in to the first draft of custom pages support. > The question on my mind is: > > Which of these is prefered: > > 1) http://.../MyCustomPage > 2) http://.../custom/MyCustomPage > 3) something different? > > :-? > > Advantages of (1): we can potentially override built-in pages/commands. > Whether that's good or bad, i don't yet know. Depending on which command(s) > get overridden with custom ones, a repo might require manual surgery on the > db to recover from mistakes. > > Advantages of (2): we have a well-defined namespace under which to place > custom commands, with no risk (or option) of accidentally replacing a > built-in command. > I think (2) since that way we don't have to worry about causing accidental collisions with preexisting custom pages when we add new built-in pages in the future. > > Insofar as possible this support "should" work via HTTP and CLI modes, > e.g.: > > fossil custom MyCommand ... > > (doh, i need to feed the CLI args into th1 and add some args processing > funcs to it...) > > TH1 of course isn't as full-fledged as TCL, but it's there, it's easy to > work with at the C level, and it's more powerful than i thought it was (not > as much so as i'd like, but it's a good starting point for prototyping this > stuff). If it turns out th1 will be too cumbersome/problematic/whatever, > switching over to TCL is still an option. If there are strong arguments for > immediately preferring TCL over th1, please speak up before i invest the > weekend on this ;). > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > -- D. Richard Hipp [email protected]
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