[darcs-users] Interop with Darcs

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Artyom Shalkhakov  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to write a web interface for Darcs (one that isn't pain to use).
>
> AFAIK there are two ways to interoperate with Darcs:
> - invoke it on the command line, with optional XML output (hey,
> where's the schema?)
> - make use of Haskell modules exported by Darcs
>
> Is there a nicer way?
>
> Cheers,
> Artyom Shalkhakov.

There isn't any schema I know of. You really just have to parse it
kind of ad-hoc. Like in my Filestore code abstracting over darcs
(maybe you could use it), I just looked at the XML generating code in
darcs to see that the output is pretty much fixed - when you've seen
the nodes for one change from --xml-output, you've seen'em all.

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gwern
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