`viewcvs' (Was: Re: [dbootstrap] `newt' and `boxes.c', `bogl' and `bowl'[, `???' and `boxeX.c'?])
>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu> writes:
Ben> karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
>> I'll try to keep in mind that there needs to be a generic interface
>> that can be implemented by other GUI frontends, in the way that
>> `boxes.c' and `bowl' do it now. I'm going to break things on purpose
>> though, just for the freedom of it. I'll do a newt interface, if I
>> can, and not worry too much about `bogl' for now.
Ben> Worrying about BOGL is probably a waste of time. AFAIK no work
Ben> has been done on it in a long time. I agree that your approach
Ben> is probably the best.
Ok. I'll start learning `newt' soon.
I've been side-tracked most of today with a `dist-upgrade' on
BitterSweet. I've brought it forward to `Woody', and have a drive in
a removable rack for the other (as yet un-named) machine, which I
will keep pure `Potato'.
I'm goofing with `viewcvs'. It's a clone of `cvsweb' written in
Python. I think we should install it on `cvs.debian.org' in place of
`cvsweb', since it can do the annotation feature without needing
writes to "history", etc.
It's also got a checkin database thing, where every commit is logged
to a MySQL database, and you can query that via a web interface... I
haven't looked into that much yet.
In order to do the transition from `cvsweb' to `viewcvs' I made some
Apache rewrite rules... Hmmm. I guess since it's the home page for
`cvs.debian.org' anyway, there's no big deal changing over. The two
programs are functionally identical. As long as `www-data' has no
writes on any repository, the repository is safe, even if there's a
security bug of some kind in `viewcvs'.
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