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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla front-ends
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John Meinel |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla front-ends |
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Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:55:48 -0500 |
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David Allouche wrote:
On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 15:18 -0500, John Meinel wrote:
Well, I would like to switch to fai, but for some reason it doesn't seem
to run under cygwin. I had a little bit of trouble with symlinks, though
I thought I fixed that.
It would help if you could be more specific about the problems of fai on
cygwin. These are probably actual problems in PyArch. Though cygwin
compatibility is not a priority for me (I have no Windows environment to
run the tests, and I do not intend to have one) I will gladly help
figure out the problem and accept fixes.
I'm sending a big entry to the gnu-arch-dev list. Basically it seems to
fail in StringOutput.__read, the .read() seems to hang forever. I give
specific examples of when, so that hopefully we can figure out why.
I know I have friends who would really like to see more GUI front-ends.
(Something like WinCVS, TortoiseCVS, or Cervisia, where you have a path
browser, and it will tell you the current state of the files, give you
diffs/history, etc.). The closest one I know if is Octopy, but I'm
guessing that hasn't really been maintained.
Indeed, the maintainer seems inactive.
Since it is also a python app, it would probably be nice if it was
modified to use the nice python wrapper instead of it's own. That way if
tla is ever librified, octopy would get it for free as well. And there
would be less redundant code.
I intended to port octopy to PyArch initially. The desire to write a gtk
equivalent to octopy was part of the original motivation behind PyArch.
I plan to put a release out as soon as possible (it will probably take a
few more months at the current pace). After that, I will welcome
improvements needed for such a project.
It will be nice to see that.
I would be interested in writing a wxPython gui interface, but I have to
actually finish my dissertation, so there is not much of a chance for
the next few months.
Sounds like a good timing, then :)
Hopefully we end up on the same page at the same time. :)
Are there other front-ends that people use? I know there is quite a few
tla-contrib scripts, but that's not really a front end, just a
collection of helpful things.
I personally use tlash, which is a horrible hack. Eventually I should
start working or Rob Weir's raw (Reusable Arch Wrapper).
I guess there is xtla, though I think of it as an emacs plugin, not a
front end. Simply because I don't know emacs (I'm a vim user), and I
don't know what kind of benefit vs time to learn emacs just to use xtla.
xtla is a very interesting achievement, however I doubt it could teach
much about the right way to write Arch GUI applications, as it is a very
idiosyncratic emacs application.
In my opinion, Arch GUI design is still a completely open topic.
Yeah. I used octopy a little bit, and it was a different way of dealing
with the filesystem. Coming from CVS ones that are basically just a file
explorer with some extra commands for running cvs commands, and a nice
graphical history viewer.
But it will be interesting to see what turns up.
John
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: Having two precommit hooks, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Having two precommit hooks, John Meinel, 2004/10/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Having two precommit hooks, David Allouche, 2004/10/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Having two precommit hooks, David Allouche, 2004/10/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Having two precommit hooks, John Meinel, 2004/10/10
- [Gnu-arch-users] tla front-ends, David Allouche, 2004/10/10
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla front-ends, Matthieu Moy, 2004/10/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla front-ends,
John Meinel <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Having two precommit hooks, Miles Bader, 2004/10/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Having two precommit hooks, Miles Bader, 2004/10/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Having two precommit hooks, James Blackwell, 2004/10/10
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Having two precommit hooks, Matthieu Moy, 2004/10/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] missing feature: text file handling, mlh, 2004/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] missing feature: text file handling, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] missing feature: text file handling, Marcus Sundman, 2004/10/07
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] missing feature: text file handling, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/10/07