[darcs-users] phpDarcsView 0.5

[Max Battcher]

On 3/2/07, Sergej Chodarev <sergejx at centrum.sk> wrote:
> I've written simple PHP script for viewing Darcs repositories placed at
> HTTP server. Unlike other similar programs it doesn't need to have Darcs
> installed on the server. It obtain all information about repository by
> parsing files in _darcs directory of repository.

Thanks for posting that, from just flipping through it it looks pretty
good.  I was thinking that I should look at it later and see if I can
use some of the code as a guide in my hybrid Python system (based in
spirit at least on darcsweb, but extremely different at this point).
In mine, I try to balance darcs calls by slurping data into a database
(not because darcs is slow so much as the fact that it's tough to be
faster than a highly optimized modern relational database for
key-based lookups), as well as building things modularly enough that
you can turn off the pieces that use certain darcs calls (ie,
Patch/Tag-related views use more darcs calls than File-related views).
 I've definitely considered adding the ability to do the "database
slurps" without darcs and your code might finally prove the
inspiration I need to add that as an alternative script alongside my
darcs-calling scripts.

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