[darcs-users] darcsweb fails to generate rss feed for small repos

[Alberto Bertogli]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:34:46PM +0200, VMiklos wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:52:18AM -0300, Alberto Bertogli <albertito at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can't reproduce this problem, I tried creating an empty repository and
> > adding up to 5 patches, and it works well in every step (as it should,
> > because the code just doesn't care how many patches are there).
> > 
> > What error do you get? Is the repo public, so I can download it and give
> > it a try?
> 
> http://darcs.frugalware.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=frugalwareutils;a=rss
> 
> this fails

With "repo not found". And it's not even listed... are you sure that's
the right name?


> > And while we're at it: if anyone is aware of any regression/feature
> > missing comparing to darcs.cgi, please let me know.
> 
> then here are two requests:
> 
> 1) first search config in /etc/darcsweb/, this would make the packagers'
> life a bit easier. something like:
> 
> sys.path.insert(0, '/etc/darcsweb/')
> 
> before the declaration of the empty configuration class

That's already in, since 0.15. It does sys.path.append('/etc/darcsweb')
tho, but the effect is the same (unless you use vhosts or want to have
two different darcsweb's, where it does what you want).


> 2) support for having cia links for the authors

[...]

> of course it's just a quick&dirty hack, probably it could be disabled by
> default and enabled with a config option (i thought i've already posted
> it to here, but i can't find the patch in the archives)

I must have missed it, sorry about that.

This is definitively either a no, or a "no by default" thing; I'll try
to find a nice non-intrusive implementation, and if I can't find one, I
will have to pass.

The reason is simple: this is a very, very specific thing. That site has
only 8094 users listed, and 844 projects. That's pretty much nothing, my
guess is more than 90% of darcs users aren't there, and I bet more than
80% doesn't even know about it. (of course probably even less people
know about/use darcsweb, but well, that's another story ;)

So while I can see it's a nice thing to have for those who are listed in
the site, the cost/benefit relation is still not enough to get this in.
Unless, of course, I find a very nice and clean way to implement this =)

I'll try to find some time this week to play with this, and I'll let you
know.


Any other request/regression? Does darcsweb do _everything_ darcs.cgi
does?

Thanks a lot,
		Alberto