On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Steve Schow <st...@bstage.com> wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2016, at 9:22 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Michael Richter <ttmrich...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> http://fossil.0branch.com/fsl/wiki?name=Cookbook, >> > fwiw, i think you've misconstrued the conventional silence. i've always > intended it as, "whew! We dodged that bullet again!" > > Stephan…I’m new here. What do you mean by “dodged a bullet? Is fsl > something to be afraid of for any reason? I don’t want to waste my time if > so. but I know I am going to write my own wrapper scripts. So I’m > genuinely interesting in anything that anyone else has done. > Let me back up and try to unmuddle the muddling i've done... a) i'm _thrilled_ that Michael offers people a solution for this so that they... b) temporarily forget that fossil doesn't natively do it, until... c) 4-6 months have passed and a newcomer, unaware of the fsl wrapper, points out that fossil doesn't have this capability ;). i personally have a strong allergy against platform-specific code (because i code for coding's sake, and having to coddle various platforms takes the fun out of it), and terminal output is one of those things which requires platform-specific code. (Fossil has a good deal of code to ensure that something as mundane as streaming console output behaves well in various Windows environments.) But that's just my opinion, and those are very often in the minority, so please don't take any of them too seriously. -- ----- 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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