On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Abilio Marques <amarq...@smartappsla.com>wrote:
> I have not much of free time right now, as my startup consumes a lot of > it, but let's say I get the time... which way should I go? using the old > fashioned spawn a fossil executable with the command, or use libfossil > instead? ... Is the plan to keep both developments in parallel, with > libfossil following Fossil updates? Does it use a big part of the original > Fossil code? Thoughts about how an IDE plugin should it be done are welcome. > The plan is for libfossil to offer a "compatible, alternative" API for accessing fossil data. Though DRH is the license holder of libf, that's just for the off-chance that libf and fossil do merge at some point in the far future. Currently (and for the foreseeable future) they are separate projects: in fossil i'm a minion and in libf i'm the benevolent dictator, so to say. Where it makes sense to do so (which is most, but not all of the time so far), features are ported over directly into library form. The vast majority of libfossil's innards are direct descendants of fossil's code (copy/pasted, then refactored for a library-style interface). All of the notable algorithms have been either directly ported or reimplemented (due to widely differing structures) after careful study of fossil's sources (e.g. the way libf generates "artifact" data is much different, but the inputs/outputs are the same). As far as IDE integration goes: the lib API would be the clear choice, with the caveat that some features are so far down the roadmap as to not yet be visible (e.g. network sync). The next big missing (==still to port) piece is update/merge. i don't anticipate any particular problems there, it's just a lot of work to port the code. Interestingly, libf ports of fossil algos are normally about 50-100% longer than fossil impls because of all the error checking/handling/reporting. fossil, OTOH, simply exits for the vast majority of errors (which greatly simplifies/shortens the app-level code). -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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