[darcs-devel] darcsforge and performance of darcs repo-browsers

[Mark Stosberg]

>
> Something like that is what I'm doing with my nascent, not quite ready
> for primetime, tool named "Darcsforge" [1].  I use apply posthook
> agents to marshal change information into a relational database,
> because database optimization and scaling are "solved problems", or at
> least well known problems with plenty of "experts", as well as to
> cache a few other things into static files.  If you browse through my
> Patch Trackers you'll never hit a page that executes *any* darcs
> queries directly.
>
> http://darcsforge.code.worldmaker.net/
> http://darcsforge.code.worldmaker.net/patch/ - Patch Tracker for
> Darcsforge itself

Neat. I tried it and the performance is definitely great, and the
designs look sharp, too. From doing a "darcs get", I didn't find any
documentation for the project, but you did qualify as not being ready
yet.

It's already a good example of how a web interface to darcs can perform
well, though.

     Mark

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