[darcs-users] darcs serve

[Gian Piero Carrubba]

Hi Xan,

sorry for the delay.

abstract: I agree with you.

* [Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:07:02AM +0200] Xan:
>> Anyway, even if not strictly related, I would like to point to the
>> graphical user interface seen in the camp video. Am I wrong or there
>> where some plans for adopting/integrating it sometime ago ? I guess they
>> don't still stand, but imo a graphical interface could be useful for the
>> 'lonesome' developer.
>> If I am right it also displayed the patches dependencies, a feature that
>> seems very useful to me.
>>
>
>I was focus in web UI because it's for *everyone*. GUI is always 
>rectricted to a environment: you have to install GTK libs, or QT libs, 
>or .... with web, you just have to got simple browser....

You're right, a webUI is a simpler approach... well, apart when it 
isn't: if you had to install an http server, a DB, and so on, I would 
prefer a good old GUI for tasks that do not require the interface to be 
publicly accessible. Anyway Ganesh already ruled out this scenario.

I was mentioning the GUI only because I assume it is already available 
and IIRC someone proposed integrating/adopting it some time ago. And to 
be honest I don't even know if it was a full featured GUI. I vaguely 
remember the video and recall it showed the dependency tree, but don't 
know if it had other features apart from that.

>But I will be very glad with your application.

Probably I worded it wrong. Unfortunately I don't have the skills for 
this.

>I think that the graphical (web or GUI) is a critical point for darcs 
>adoption. It could be best versioning system in the world theorically 
>but if you don't bring a graphical interface (all cli), then you have a 
>minority of users.... this is my point of view. I'm just an sporadical 
>user.

Well, I guess it depends on personal preferences and usage. While I 
consider it a nice addition, I'm not so excited about it as I was, i.e., 
with regard to the rebase command that saved my day just a week or two 
ago (God bless you, Ganesh). Also, I would like a dependency tree graph 
but apart from this I'm not sure I would use the GUI much.
But again I agree that it's a nice-to-have and that darcs could benefit 
from it.

Ciao,
Gian Piero.