Re: [fossil-users] libfossil www interface: looking for ideas

2014-02-20 Thread Doug Currie
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Nico Williams wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Stephan Beal > wrote: > > Can you recommend one in C? i'm self-imposed bound to C here. i "might" > be > > convinced to write it in C++. > > If you look aroung in http://github.com/stedolan you'll find a mini

Re: [fossil-users] libfossil www interface: looking for ideas

2014-02-20 Thread Nico Williams
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: >> In which case I'd strongly urge that the best option here is to pick a >> third party servlet engine based on its own criteria rather than >> inventing yet another one --- they're harder than they look and there >> are too many as it is! (Par

Re: [fossil-users] libfossil www interface: looking for ideas

2014-02-19 Thread Ron Wilson
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:06 PM, David Given wrote: > On 2/17/14, 10:26 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > [...] > > Can you recommend one in C? i'm self-imposed bound to C here. i "might" > be > > convinced to write it in C++. > > Unfortunately, no --- it's not something I'd really want to do in C, as >

Re: [fossil-users] libfossil www interface: looking for ideas

2014-02-19 Thread Stephan Beal
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:06 PM, David Given wrote: > Unfortunately, no --- it's not something I'd really want to do in C, as > C's strengths do not really match the kind of wholesale string shuffling > you need for a servlet engine. (Although using sqlite *just for string > manipulation* from C

Re: [fossil-users] libfossil www interface: looking for ideas

2014-02-19 Thread David Given
On 2/17/14, 10:26 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: [...] > Can you recommend one in C? i'm self-imposed bound to C here. i "might" be > convinced to write it in C++. Unfortunately, no --- it's not something I'd really want to do in C, as C's strengths do not really match the kind of wholesale string shuffl

Re: [fossil-users] libfossil www interface: looking for ideas

2014-02-17 Thread Stephan Beal
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:59 PM, David Given wrote: > This sounds very much as if what you're actually looking for is a web > servlet engine with libfossil bindings, rather than anything that's > actually specific to Fossil. > Almost, except that i have no grand delusions about it being used fo

Re: [fossil-users] libfossil www interface: looking for ideas

2014-02-17 Thread David Given
On 2/17/14, 5:33 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: [...] > - rather than think in terms of pages i'd like to think in terms of "apps" > or "applets." There's no reason that a "page" should not be able to turn > around and embed 4 other smaller "pagelets." There's also no reason those > pagelets can't load Ja

Re: [fossil-users] libfossil www interface: looking for ideas

2014-02-17 Thread Michai Ramakers
opinion polls are always fun, because everyone has one. On 17 February 2014 18:33, Stephan Beal wrote: > what are the top 5 (or so) pages you all use in the Fossil WWW UI (the > fossil 'ui' command, or the page shown by a fossil server/CGI)? in this order: - /timeline - /tree of trunk or partic

[fossil-users] libfossil www interface: looking for ideas

2014-02-17 Thread Stephan Beal
Hi, all, over the weekend i put together some proof-of-concept code demonstrating CGI pages created using libfossil, e.g.: http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/libfossil/cgidemo/index.cgi/timeline?showSrc=1&limit=5 This post is about gathering input for, say, the top 5 things a fossil WWW UI n