On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 4:13 PM Niall Douglas via Boost
On 06/04/2022 13:58, Dominique Devienne wrote:
So that's a big turnoff for me at least, it reminds me of that all-in-one integrated thingy which Boost had yonks ago and we were never able to get off some very ancient version of it full of known security holes. I **really** don't want to go back to that. But please don't go about writing about security holes or abondonware or bloat for things Dr Hipp does...
The issue [...] which Boost had [...] wasn't that there weren't new versions. [...] The issue was that upgrading the existing to newer broke stuff [...]
Good thing Fossil and SQLite have a excellent track record of backward compatibility then.
[...] learned to love GitHub. [...]
But that's orthogonal, no? GitHub does not have MLs or a Boost-wide forum, does it? I don't have experience with GitHub discussions, but I do subscribe to lots of GitHub projects and some issues, getting email notifications from them, but this doesn't feel like a forum or an ML to me. But perhaps I'm missing your point and what you are actually advocating for, as a replacement for the current MLs? In the GitHub ecosystem perhaps? --DD PS: Another anecdote regarding "security" and Fossil. When SHA1 was "broken", Dr Hipp switched Fossil to SHA3 in a matter of days, retaining BC with former artifacts using SHA1, while it took months (or is it years?) for Git to upgrade its hashes. But that's about Fossil *SCM*, while here we are merely discussing Fossil for its Forum feature (yet, Forum posts are SCM artifacts in and of themselves I believe, although I'm not sure of that. They are editable and versioned for sure).