Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On 1/31/06, Sanket Sharma <sanketsharma@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Develop a "Rich" interface to subversion
>
> Sure, but to do *what*? To browse the repository? To behave like a
> full-fledged svn client that manages working copies? To draw animated
> cartoons? Can you be more specific? Subversion is mostly a
> collection of C libraries with many, many APIs. What layer are
> attempting to drive, and what will be presented to the user?
>
> FWIW, there are a number of repository-browsing programs out there,
> though they're all CGI (rather than client-side) web apps. ViewVC
> (viewvc.tigris.org) is very popular, and allows you to browse both cvs
> and svn repositories.
>
> Actually, there is one repository browser -- called mod_svn_view --
> which does a lot of client-side javascript. You might want to take a
> look at it.
I would also point over to Insurrection
(http://svn.code-host.net/browser-tests/, demo at
http://svn.code-host.net/). While not particularly featureful (then again,
it does pretty much everything one would expect of a repository browser)
with heavy use of client-side XSLT and javascript to offload the rendering
work from the server.
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Received on Wed Feb 1 03:02:58 2006