@Ben, surely people want to see it That's what I said. Why we tend to use people to write some "repository view" stuff in python and not integrate to darcs in haskell?
Thanks, On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 00:42:08 +0100 Ben Franksen <ben.frank...@online.de> ha escrit: > A very late follow-up: > > I recently wrote a simple wrapper script for darcsweb. Darcsweb is, of > course, not a full-featured GUI for darcs. The idea was rather to have > something like 'hg view' for darcs. > > The script is written (I should say: hacked together) in Python; it copies > some configuration data (including the complete darcsweb.cgi) into temporary > directories and then starts a properly configured CGI-enabled web server. I > have been thinking about uploading the repo somewhere but it is really low > quality code (though small and simple) and my Python-fu is rather weak... I > am sure someone else could do this much better. > > If there is interest I can upload it to e.g. darcsden. > > Gian Piero Carrubba wrote: > > > Hi Xan, > > > > sorry for the delay. > > > > abstract: I agree with you. > > > > * [Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:07:02AM +0200] Xan: > >>> Anyway, even if not strictly related, I would like to point to the > >>> graphical user interface seen in the camp video. Am I wrong or there > >>> where some plans for adopting/integrating it sometime ago ? I guess they > >>> don't still stand, but imo a graphical interface could be useful for the > >>> 'lonesome' developer. > >>> If I am right it also displayed the patches dependencies, a feature that > >>> seems very useful to me. > >>> > >> > >>I was focus in web UI because it's for *everyone*. GUI is always > >>rectricted to a environment: you have to install GTK libs, or QT libs, > >>or .... with web, you just have to got simple browser.... > > > > You're right, a webUI is a simpler approach... well, apart when it > > isn't: if you had to install an http server, a DB, and so on, I would > > prefer a good old GUI for tasks that do not require the interface to be > > publicly accessible. Anyway Ganesh already ruled out this scenario. > > > > I was mentioning the GUI only because I assume it is already available > > and IIRC someone proposed integrating/adopting it some time ago. And to > > be honest I don't even know if it was a full featured GUI. I vaguely > > remember the video and recall it showed the dependency tree, but don't > > know if it had other features apart from that. > > > >>But I will be very glad with your application. > > > > Probably I worded it wrong. Unfortunately I don't have the skills for > > this. > > > >>I think that the graphical (web or GUI) is a critical point for darcs > >>adoption. It could be best versioning system in the world theorically > >>but if you don't bring a graphical interface (all cli), then you have a > >>minority of users.... this is my point of view. I'm just an sporadical > >>user. > > > > Well, I guess it depends on personal preferences and usage. While I > > consider it a nice addition, I'm not so excited about it as I was, i.e., > > with regard to the rebase command that saved my day just a week or two > > ago (God bless you, Ganesh). Also, I would like a dependency tree graph > > but apart from this I'm not sure I would use the GUI much. > > But again I agree that it's a nice-to-have and that darcs could benefit > > from it. > > > > Ciao, > > Gian Piero. > -- > "Make it so they have to reboot after every typo." -- Scott Adams > > > _______________________________________________ > darcs-users mailing list > darcs-users@darcs.net > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
