Pygit brainstorming:
1) I will attempt to come up with a UI similar to Github (e.g.
https://github.com/lkcl/pyjamas) in "Code".
* On top a "Branch" combobox (ListBox) to select the branch to
display files for
* As the main panel a tabbed pane (TabPanel) with "Files", "Commits"
- not sure if we need "Branches" (there's the combobox above)
Something else that could be shown?
2) Can I access the back-end on pyjs.org for developing/testing the
application front-end? I have changed the URL in the GitService class,
but I get an empty response ("JSONRPC Error -32603: Empty Response").
class GitService(JSONProxy):
def __init__(self):
JSONProxy.__init__(self, "http://pyjs.org/JSON";,
["heads", "commits",
"item",
"items",
"items_in",
])
Peter
2012/3/8 lkcl luke <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Peter Bittner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I've just taken a look at the pygit source code. Fascinating, the
>> source of the front-end is just about 300 lines long.
>
> yeah - i know!
>
>> Actually less,
>> part of it is plain CSS, embedded.
>
>
>> I've not yet understood what the server side does (it's probably
>> jsonserver/jsonserver.py),
>
> it's a stand-alone version of the jsonrpc.py stuff that's in the
> pyjamas/pyjs/jsonrpc/* directory.
>
>
>> and whether the source is complete.
>
> yyep, it is. ok, as far as the functionality offered is concerned.
>
>
>> Anyone
>> want to give a hint what the SimpleJSONRPCServer(("localhost", 8000))
>> on line 274 is capsulating?
>
> ok, that's a stand-alone JSONRPC server, being based on (deriving
> from) SimpleCGIHTTPServer which derives from SimpleHTTPServer.
>
> as a result of it being stand-alone, you can't run it on port 80
> (because that's where apache lives). so i have a ProxyPass and
> ProxyPassReverse directive in the apache config to join the two
> together.
>
> messy, but it works. it's why i want to replace everything with mongrel2.
>
>
>> (Where does the git data come from, finally?)
>
> "import git". you have to run the SimpleJSONRPCServer.py application
> in the working directory of the git repository that it's to open.
>
>
>> What I like to do with pygit is come up with a state-of-the-art Git
>> browser front-end, which intuitively allows browsing though the
>> current code base, branches, last commits (and find out what has
>> changed, e.g. with a syntax-highlighted diff-like output), inspect
>> files, download files and tarballs, etc.
>
> yeah great! hmm... download of files and tarballs shouuld be doable,
> not possible as JSONRPC but as a separate link target...
>
>
>> I'd be happy to see some suggestions on how the UI should look like
>> (user experience, not design!),
>
> what i created there was just something quick and functional, so as
> not to have to run anything else. it's entirely up for grabs as to
> what to do. tree hierarchy, punched cards, tickertape, roulette
> wheels within wheels, anything goes.
>
>> and what (JS-) libraries (?)
>
> none! python only
>
>> we should use for implementing, etc, etc. Anyone ready for a brainstorming
>> session?
>
> yeah, yeah, me.
