Re: [Monotone-devel] NetBeans

[Derek Scherger]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Jon Bright wrote:
> I'm very interested in an Eclipse plugin... but I have very little time to

ditto on both fronts, I'm sure a good ide plugin will help a lot with 
encouraging people to try monotone out too.

> devote.  If there's general progress in the direction of having a working 
> generic java plugin, I could maybe find the time to add Eclipse support to

yeah, my basic assumption is that most ide's will have some form of vcs 
adapter api. then we need something representing monotone that such an
adapter can target. so what I'm working towards is a generic, layered java 
wrapper around the monotone executable which translates java method calls
into their associated monotone commands, executes them, parses their 
output into something sensible and returns that.

this much is basically working, and I've started to look at using it to
build a plugin for the intellij ide but there are a few issues. this ide 
at least likes to check the status of files rather frequently and issuing 
monotone commands for all of these requests is rather slow. so I've also 
started on wrapping the basic execution functionality above in a caching
thing to try and help out performance.

I'll do my best to get the database this lives in converted to 0.16 format 
and put up a netsync server for people to see in the next few days, time 
permitting.

As a general question, would people and in particular Graydon :) like to
see this in the off.net repository, perhaps in a branch like
net.venge.monotone.plugins or something?

Cheers,
Derek