Bug#409341: ITP: hgview -- Graphical viewer for distributed version content managment tools

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 02-Feb-07, 01:08 (CST), Vincent Danjean <vdanjean@debian.org> wrote: 
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Vincent Danjean <vdanjean@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : hgview
>   Version         : not yet released
>   Upstream Author : Ludovic Aubry <ludal@logilab.fr>
> * URL             : http://www.logilab.org/hg/hgview

That redirects to the changelog, which is not actually very useful for
someone trying to find info about the package. Google doesn't find
anything more useful, though.

> * License         : Not yet fixed. Probably GPL. I'm taking with upstream
>   Programming Lang: Python + gtk
>   Description     : Graphical viewer for distributed SCM tools
> 
>  Distributed Source Control Managment tools such as git/cogito or
>  mercurial deals with large graphs of changesets. This tool allows to
>  display them graphicaly. 

1. That's "graphically".

2. Does hgview really support anything besides mercurial? A quick glance
at hgview.py implies otherwise.

3. In anycase, explicitly list the supported DSCM systems. "Tools such
as" doesn't help the user.

Steve

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