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

[Max Battcher]

Mark Stosberg wrote:
>> 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.

Thanks a lot, Mark.  I've been meaning for a while to finish up a few 
more things, write some documentation, and then officially announce it, 
but I've been busy with so much other stuff (work, graduate courses). 
If anyone is interested in it I'd be happy to walk them through working 
with it.  I've been using it in a few places for a while now and its 
definitely useful even if not entirely polished or finished, just yet.

Hopefully I'll see more time to hack on it in a couple of months.

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--Max Battcher--