On 9/22/05, Jonathon Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As a bit of a midweek project, I decided to try to write a Spotlight > importer for darcs repositories. And so, for the Tiger users among us: > > <http://homepage.mac.com/jmah/temp/darcs-importer.zip> (48kb, > instructions included) > <http://homepage.mac.com/jmah/temp/darcs-importer.png> (108kb, > gratuitous screenshot :)) > > (For the archive: The above is a temporary URL until I get my new > site up. When I get around to it, you'll find it at <http:// > www.playhaus.org/>.) > > As the (above) indicates, I'll put up a web site for it (along with > other projects of mine) sometime soon, which will include access to > its darcs repository. But enough logistics. > > In a nutshell, the importer will expose a repository's patch logs, > patch authors, and more to Spotlight. I needed to use a bit of > hackery to get the OS to treat the _darcs directory as a single file > (described in the Read Me file) -- seeing if I could get around this > was one of my main motivations for building it. The only catch is > that changes (i.e. records, etc.) aren't automatically picked up. You > can set mdimport to run as a darcs posthook command as a reasonable > workaround. > > My inventory file parsing is a bit ugly, based on some quick > experiments with small newly-created repositories. There may still be > some cases that it doesn't handle. > > I'm not convinced of the usefulness of such a plug-in, but it's at > least nice knowing the data has been liberated somewhat from the > confines of 'darcs changes'. > > Give it a go, and let me know what you think. > > > Thanks for darcs! > > > Jonathon Mah > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Thanks for sharing this. I've been looking for some nice integration tools like this. I will give it a go sometime this week. Thanks again, Brian. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
