After taking into account the responses to my rudimentary darcs
Spotlight importer a few weeks ago, I thought I'd try making
something that would actually be useful.
So behold, Patchworks!
Well, you can't be holding it just yet. But here's a couple of
screenshots of the work in progress:
1: <http://homepage.mac.com/jmah/temp/spotlight.png>
This shows generic Spotlight search results for "darcs-stable",
grouped by person. The results contain all types of content: e-mail
messages (one can be seen under David Roundy), patches to the darcs-
stable repository, and other types of files (which are off screen).
Patch-specific information can be seen when you disclose the
information panel thingy.
(I've since changed the order of the displayed fields to make it more
logical (i.e. put the e-mail address directly below the author), but
didn't bother taking another screenshot yet.)
2: <http://homepage.mac.com/jmah/temp/tags.png>
This is the kind of thing that I find most exciting. This shows a
Finder smart folder (or "saved search", whatever) containing the tags
in darcs-stable (sorted by date). For those unfamiliar with Mac OS X
10.4, a smart folder is conceptually a normal folder containing live-
updated search results -- they're displayed alongside normal
folders. So what's cool about this? Well, they're live-updating! So
you can have a smart folder of your repo's patches, and you can see
new patches as they come in, in real-time.
So what happens when you double-click one of these patch files? They
open in the Patchworks application, which is currently very basic,
and is where the most work needs to be done. But this is designed to
be a patch viewer. At the moment it shows a few patch properties
(name, date, author, etc.) and a text dump of the full patch. Under
construction.
Oh, and why "Patchworks"? Well, I needed a name and that sounded
adequate. To me, though, the name evokes the feelings of something
more than just a patch viewer. We'll see, I guess.
Coming soon!
Jonathon Mah
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