Maybe it will help if I'll explain the motive for this idea. There are a few
SVN browsers, like WebSVN and ViewVC. They are nice, but they only allow
read access. What they miss is an easy way to download a file, edit it (in
an external application) and then commit the changes. The simple solution is
adding a file upload control in HTML, but that's very inconvenient. Because
of security limitations, an extension is probably needed to facilitate
automatic or semi-automatic upload (commit).
So it's quite likely that all that's needed is an extension on top of
ViewVC. Ideas?
Noam.
On 4/1/06, Noam Tamim <noamtm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> It seems like there are hundreds, if not thousands, of new startups that
> develop so called AJAX applications. It also seems like more and more
> organizations are adopting Subversion as the source control system.
>
> In my mind, there's an open source AJAX web application that provides
> read/write access to a Subversion repository. Think TortoiseSVN, but in your
> browser. The UI shows the entire source tree, allowing you to check out and
> then commit files (a supporting Firefox extension comes to mind). Perhaps,
> you can check out a Word document from the repository, open it directly in
> Word, edit and commit. Text files you can edit inside the browser. Either
> the extension or the web app will provide the programmer's equivalent of a
> WYSIWYG editor: a text editor with syntax highlighting and smart
> indentation.
>
> In the second phase, this system might allow to even build and run the
> software under source control (on the server?). The options are unlimited...
>
> Does this idea make sense to anyone here? I'm a full-time C/C++ programmer
> and software engineer, not a web developer, so I'm unlikely to do it, but
> I'd like to know if anyone but me thinks it's a good idea, and perhaps
> willing to work on it.
>
>
> -- Noam.
>
>
Received on Sat Apr 1 13:02:54 2006