Re: [fossil-users] A-B comparison of proposed timeline changes

2017-11-27 Thread Steve Landers
Nice work. Have you considered dropping the borders on the commits?  They do add definition to the commit, but at the expense of repetition and possibly “noise” when the branch isn’t colored Screenshot at https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4sa29q8i0dv7r3/timeline.png?dl=0 —Steve On 28 Nov 2017, 7:02

Re: [fossil-users] A-B comparison of proposed timeline changes

2017-11-27 Thread Steve Landers
Note that I would retain the rounded corners on Warren’s backgrounds, they make the visuals “softer”. On 28 Nov 2017, 10:01 AM +0800, Richard Hipp , wrote: > On 11/27/17, Steve Landers wrote: > > Nice work. > > > > Have you considered dropping the borders on the

Re: [fossil-users] A-B comparison of proposed timeline changes

2017-11-28 Thread Steve Landers
I like it. Thanks On 29 Nov 2017, 10:17 AM +0800, Warren Young , wrote: > On Nov 27, 2017, at 7:04 PM, Steve Landers wrote: > > > > Note that I would retain the rounded corners on Warren’s backgrounds, they > > make the visuals “softer”. > > You can have that

Re: [fossil-users] Help improve the Fossil CSS

2017-12-03 Thread Steve Landers
s. > > For the moment, I have assigned "draft1" to Steve Landers and "draft2" > to Warren Young, since both individuals have contributed CSS change > suggestions recently. I will send them specific instructions on how > to edit their assigned drafts by private em

Re: [fossil-users] Help improve the Fossil CSS

2017-12-03 Thread Steve Landers
The llnk for draft1 is https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/draft1/timeline On 4 Dec 2017, 11:07 AM +0800, Steve Landers , wrote: > Draft1 omits the borders around checkins in the Modern View, and adds a > subtle background color for any commits that are not already colored. > > The

Re: [fossil-users] Help improve the Fossil CSS

2017-12-03 Thread Steve Landers
On 4 Dec 2017, 11:12 AM +0800, Richard Hipp , wrote: > On 12/3/17, Steve Landers wrote: > > The llnk for draft1 is https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/draft1/timeline > > At https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/draft1/timeline?c=106fe6 the > yellow highlight color only covers the

Re: [fossil-users] Help improve the Fossil CSS

2017-12-04 Thread Steve Landers
Done .. I just copied the bulk of Warren’s Draft2 and added my few lines at then. On 5 Dec 2017, 9:38 AM +0800, Richard Hipp , wrote: > On 12/3/17, Steve Landers wrote: > > If the entire highlighted commit should be yellow then the background CSS > > can be m

Re: [fossil-users] Help improve the Fossil CSS

2017-12-11 Thread Steve Landers
i haven’t had the time to figure the correct CSS to make the background on the row override the background on the div. On 11 Dec 2017, 11:03 PM +0800, Richard Hipp , wrote: > On 12/11/17, Martin Gagnon wrote: > > > > > The llnk for draft1 is https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/draft1/timeline > >

Re: [fossil-users] Help improve the Fossil CSS

2017-12-11 Thread Steve Landers
That’ll definitely help, and be more likely to work across the various web browsers we need to support. On 12 Dec 2017, 7:07 AM +0800, Richard Hipp , wrote: > On 12/11/17, Steve Landers wrote: > > i haven’t had the time to figure the correct CSS to make the background on > > t

Re: [fossil-users] Metadata in Timeline Verbose View

2017-12-11 Thread Steve Landers
The slightly lighter gray has the downside of not being visible by many folk with diminished contrast perception. Old geezers in other words :) My vote would be to stick with the current color and also to ensure no generated branch colors ever come close to matching it. On 12 Dec 2017, 11:47 A

Re: [fossil-users] Show time...

2018-06-03 Thread Steve Landers
Too snarky, IMHO. State the positive, let the reader figure the negative. Steve On 4 Jun 2018, 9:33 AM +0800, Richard Hipp , wrote: > On 6/3/18, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > > So, if anybody sees any last minute tidying up that we need to do... > > For example, on the front page > (https://fossil-

Re: [fossil-users] Perception of Fossil

2018-06-16 Thread Steve Landers
fossil submit Steve On 16 Jun 2018, 9:30 PM +0800, Tony Papadimitriou , wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Richard Hipp > > > Other ideas for what to name this (hypothetical and unimplemented) command: > > > > fossil contribute > > fossil bequest > > fossil bestow > > fossil proffer > >

Re: [fossil-users] About to merge the forum-v2 branch

2018-08-02 Thread Steve Landers
On 31 Jul 2018, 9:47 PM +0800, Richard Hipp , wrote: > I am about ready to merge the forum-v2 branch into trunk. If there > are any objections, voice them quickly. An observation (not a criticism) is that (at its current state of development) the forum does not work too well on mobile devices. An

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-05 Thread Steve Landers
Put differently, what can’t you do with “fossil ui” that you can do with a native client? Drag and drop is the only one I can think of and I suspect that’s a good thing. -- Steve On 6 Aug 2018, 9:17 AM +0800, Richard Hipp , wrote: > On 8/5/18, Gilles wrote: > > 2. There's no maintained GUI for

Re: [fossil-users] Why no EXE+DLL like SQLite?

2018-08-06 Thread Steve Landers
On 6 Aug 2018, 9:19 AM +0800, Steve Landers , wrote: > Put differently, what can’t you do with “fossil ui” that you can do with a > native client? > > Drag and drop is the only one I can think of and I suspect that’s a good > thing. And also push notifications. While it can b

[fossil-users] ssl certificates

2011-05-31 Thread Steve Landers
Hi all, I've been quite happily using fossil over https until yesterday, when my SSL certificate was due to expire and rather than renew it, I purchased another one for the domain. This meant the installed certificate was different that the previous one, and now I'm getting the "WARNING: Cer

Re: [fossil-users] branch colour

2011-06-29 Thread Steve Landers
On 29/06/2011, at 4:49 PM, Christopher Vance wrote: > I've seen the --bgcolor option for 'fossil branch new', but was > wondering if I can change the colour on an existing branch? Yep, via the web interface. Look for the Edit link. Oh, and g'day Chris, good to have you on board and fossilising

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-07-07 Thread Steve Landers
On 07/07/2011, at 3:03 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On 07/07/2011, at 2:22 PM, Matt Welland wrote: >> Does the cross compilation really work? > > ... > $ ./configure --host=mips-unknown-nto-qnx6.5.0 > Host System...mips-unknown-nto-qnx6.5.0 >

Re: [fossil-users] Why do people create branches as a separate step? Was: Unable to sign manifest

2011-08-10 Thread Steve Landers
On 11/08/2011, at 8:02 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Will Duquette wrote: > ...development context. If I create the new branch explicitly, then I've > changed my development context in my head AND in my work area. > > > Thank you for so elegantly describing what

Re: [fossil-users] "problem" with "illegal" characters

2012-03-08 Thread Steve Landers
On 09/03/2012, at 8:22 AM, Matt Welland wrote: > I'm in the mood for some long winded editorializing > > Bob Coder is moving his development team off of AntiquatedSCM and on to one > of the fancy new distributed SCMs that are all the rage. They look at git but > it seems kinda complicated

Re: [fossil-users] Postmortum: DRH in Munich

2012-07-03 Thread Steve Landers
On 04/07/2012, at 5:43 AM, Bill Burdick wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Bill Burdick wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > @DRH: "the proof is in the pudding" (though i've never really understood > where

Re: [fossil-users] Support for Win9x?

2012-09-13 Thread Steve Landers
On 13/09/2012, at 9:02 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > Is there any reason to try to keep Fossil working on windows9x? Only if you are a technonecrophiliac Steve ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8

[fossil-users] Changed tickets report - getting previous values of a field

2013-01-11 Thread Steve Landers
I'm implementing a "Changed Tickets" report similar to that in Fossil's ticket system, the main difference is I want to show who made the change. I do this by joining ticket and ticketchg SELECT DISTINCT date(ticket.tkt_mtime), substr(tkt_uuid,1,10) AS '#', status, login, t

Re: [fossil-users] Changed tickets report - getting previous values of a field

2013-01-11 Thread Steve Landers
Y tkt1.tkt_mtime desc Excellent, thx. That shows me a way forward. > Later today, I'll try to find time to enhance Fossil so that you can > accomplish the above merely by creating a "status" column in the TICKETCHNG > table and omitting the subquery. Even better. &

Re: [fossil-users] Rename "--limit" to "--count" and "--test" to "--nochange"

2013-04-21 Thread Steve Landers
On 20/04/2013, at 2:46 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Stefan Bellon wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr, Jan Nijtmans wrote: > > > Yes, that would work fine. My question was not meant technical, but > > regarding the documentation: If "--test|-n" is the new 'official' > >

Re: [fossil-users] Did you know that Fossil could do...

2013-05-28 Thread Steve Landers
On 28/05/2013, at 8:38 AM, Mark Janssen wrote: > I did not know this, but find it very useful. +1 Steve ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] How to set-up multiple-repo CGI-based server? (fossil: d...@sqlite.org exclusive)

2013-05-29 Thread Steve Landers
Richard, Agree with all you say, it reflects my frustrations about a profession where "simple, stable and reliable" is so readily dismissed as outdated. Re your specific comment "I'm not sure why the one-process-per-task model has fallen out of favor.". It may be because early web servers (an

Re: [fossil-users] error code 28: multiple links to file (on OSX 10.8)

2013-06-10 Thread Steve Landers
Same problem here. I'm not going to touch the TimeMachine links either but a simple workaround is to exclude the Fossil repositories from the Time Machine backups. -- Steve On 09/06/2013, at 1:58 PM, Dominic Lemire wrote: > Thank you Richard, > > Turns out the other links were automaticall

Re: [fossil-users] how to delete old history?

2013-07-24 Thread Steve Landers
On 24/07/2013, at 7:28 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > AFAIK git offers a mechanism for changing history, but Fossil doesn't like > for history to change. It isn't changing history, it is setting a subproject free to live it's own life. That's not an unusual situation, given that projects often gro

Re: [fossil-users] Random thoughts on Fossil v2

2013-07-24 Thread Steve Landers
On 24/07/2013, at 6:25 AM, Baruch Burstein wrote: > Having recently graduated and on my first job, I am very interested in what > seems to me to be completely irrational. In the past year I have found that > most "irrational" things are really just my lack of experience showing :-) That is on

Re: [fossil-users] how to delete old history?

2013-07-24 Thread Steve Landers
fax. +34 93 396 97 46 > > > 2013/7/24 Isaac Jurado : > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Steve Landers > > wrote: > >> > >> On 24/07/2013, at 7:28 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > >> > >>> AFAIK git offers a mechanism for changi

Re: [fossil-users] Inofficial naming contest...

2013-07-30 Thread Steve Landers
libfossil, that's what it is. But if you want to go down the living fossil path, Coelacanth. Just be careful it doesn't become a coprolith. On 30/07/2013, at 8:36 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:33 PM, David Given wrote: > Stephan Beal wrote: > > - lib > > I really wa

Re: [fossil-users] Random thoughts on Fossil v2

2013-07-31 Thread Steve Landers
On 28/07/2013, at 8:53 AM, Paolo Bolzoni wrote: > Marketing I am afraid ... ... > Of course whoever is interested in selling other languages will mark the C++ > way as older. I respectfully disagree, strongly. Some OO languages support greater degrees of introspection and dynamic type check

Re: [fossil-users] Newbie questions: how to see what will be done by 'fossil update'

2009-02-01 Thread Steve Landers
On 02/02/2009, at 9:54 AM, D. Richard Hipp wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Tomasz Kosiak wrote: > >> I'm a newbie to fossil SCM, but familiar with CVS and SVN. >> Now I run fossil in autosync mode. I have 2 questions? >> >> 1. How can I see if I need to update my working checkout - are the

Re: [fossil-users] Newbie questions: how to see what will be done by 'fossil update'

2009-02-03 Thread Steve Landers
On 04/02/2009, at 3:21 PM, Tomasz Kosiak wrote: > Thanks for all the answers. I do see that this list has really vivid > discussion. > > I would like to read past archives. But when I follow the link > "fossil-users Archives" from this page > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/lis

Re: [fossil-users] QLFossil - Quick Look plugin for Mac OS X

2009-10-28 Thread Steve Landers
On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Dmitry Chestnykh wrote: > Hello, > > Today I wrote a Quick Look plugin for Mac OS X to quickly view > timeline of repositories. > > You can check it out here: > > http://dev.codingrobots.org/cgi-bin/o/qlfossil/ > > I hope Mac users will like it ;-) This one does :)

Re: [fossil-users] HTTPS implementation

2009-11-04 Thread Steve Landers
On 04/11/2009, at 10:18 PM, Dmitry Chestnykh wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently implementing HTTPS support for Fossil (using OpenSSL). > It's client-side only, as Apache handles server side for me. > > There's a preliminary draft version here: http://codingrobots.org/p/fossil/ > > (Changes: > htt

Re: [fossil-users] HTTPS implementation

2009-11-04 Thread Steve Landers
On 05/11/2009, at 7:09 AM, D. Richard Hipp wrote: > > On Nov 4, 2009, at 6:03 PM, Dmitry Chestnykh wrote: > >>> >>> Both DRH and I looked at the OpenSSL client-side code and decided it >>> was going to be too much of a hassle to integrate. >> >> You mean, the requirement of libssl to be present o

Re: [fossil-users] HTTPS implementation

2009-11-04 Thread Steve Landers
On 05/11/2009, at 7:25 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Steve Landers > wrote: > Although that requirement is also an issue. Any solution would > ideally be statically linked on Windows (I'm assuming that won't be a > problem on *nix).

Re: [fossil-users] Autosync hangs

2009-11-13 Thread Steve Landers
On 14/11/2009, at 9:38 AM, D. Richard Hipp wrote: > Fossil is designed in such a way that someone could decide to > reimplement the whole thing from scratch using a different technology > and the new Fossil would be able to synchronize with the old. (There > are some people who have been t

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil GUI for local source tree operations

2010-03-31 Thread Steve Landers
Folks, Re a Fossi GUI, please note I've suggested a Tk Fossil GUI in the Google Summer of Code (GSOC) Tcl/TK projects. Search for Fossil in http://wiki.tcl.tk/23186 If you know of any students who would like to earn $5k over the summer whilst learning about GUI design and development (not to me

Re: [fossil-users] unittest Regression Testing

2010-04-09 Thread Steve Landers
On 10/04/2010, at 2:55 AM, Rob Powell wrote: > I have been looking into various tools used for unit testing and regression > testing, thinking on how to approach the goal of having a regression test > framework for fossil. > > I want to use something that is fairly cross-platform, running on a

Re: [fossil-users] Didn't someone mention working on a fossil GUI (like Tortoise)?

2010-04-25 Thread Steve Landers
On 25/04/2010, at 4:07 PM, Ron Aaron wrote: > I seem to recall something like that, but can't find the reference. > > I'm interested in that, maybe in helping out. I mentioned that there was a proposed Google Summer of Code student project, which is detailed at http://wiki.tcl.tk/23186 (search

Re: [fossil-users] CGI issues

2010-05-19 Thread Steve Landers
On 20/05/2010, at 8:30 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > Is the cgi feature well tested? > > The whole fossil website at http://www.fossil-scm.org/ is an instance of > fossil running as CGI. (But not off of Apache 1.3.) I use it ext

Re: [fossil-users] Enhancement: ssh:// sync method

2010-08-25 Thread Steve Landers
On 25/08/2010, at 3:46 PM, Brian Smith wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: >> The latest version of Fossil (in the self-hosting Fossil repository - not >> the precompiled binaries which are a little too old) supports a new method >> of pushing, pulling, cloning, and syn

Re: [fossil-users] Cvs2scm

2010-10-31 Thread Steve Landers
On 01/11/2010, at 5:43 AM, Rene wrote: > I have moved my fossil repository for cvs conversions to > https://chiselapp.com/ under the name csv2scm. If you want to convert a cvs > repository give it a go. I have done successful conversions on the public > freebsd cvs repositories project/compat-f

Re: [fossil-users] ticket status coloring

2011-01-11 Thread Steve Landers
As an aside, I use the ticket coloring extensively and it works as advertised. Start with the default and configure as you feel the need. One thing I'd like to see some time is support for fgcolor as well as bgcolor (but not enough that I'd start hacking the code just at the moment :)) Steve