[darcs-users] darcs serve

[Xan]

@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.franksen at 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
> 
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