v-0.1 (alpha quality) gwsmhg is available for download at ...

[Steve Borho]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Peter Arrenbrecht
<peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Peter Williams <pwil3058 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>> Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Peter Williams <pwil3058 at bigpond.net.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ... <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gwsmhg/>.  It is a PyGTK workspace
>>>> management GUI using hg and mq.
>>>>
>>>> It requires pygtk2, pygtksourceview, pycairo, pygobject2 and (of course)
>>>> mercurial.  It has only been tested on i386 and x86_64 Fedora 10 Linux
>>>> and any testing on other systems would be appreciated.  As would
>>>> feedback on usability etc.
>>>
>>> Basic operations work on Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit.
>>>
>>> I kind of like the idea of the workspace manager. But how about
>>> integrating with TortoiseHg for actual operations like commit? See
>>> hgtk within TortoiseHg for how to launch it standalone. Maybe this
>>> could even become an extension to TortoiseHg, like `hgtk browse` or
>>> something.
>>
>> Having had a closer look at what hgtk is I've formed the opinion that the
>> opposite mechanism to this might be more appropriate.  I.e., as hgtk is
>> essentially a command line tool that launches special purpose GUIs and
>> gwsmhg is essentially a wrapper around command line tools, I could arrange
>> for it to contain a menu to launch some or all of hgtk's GUIs on request.
>
> Yes, on second thought, this sounds like the better approach.
>
>> The only problem that I can foresee is how gwsmhg will know to update its
>> displays to take into account changes in the work space's status as a
>> consequence of hgtk operations.  The simplest solution to this would be to
>> stick a "refresh" button in gwsmhg's main tool bar which the user can click
>> whenever he has made changes to the work space from outside of gwsmhg.
>
> Maybe you can talk to Steve (muggs on IRC) about having hooks in hgtk
> dialogs that tell you when to refresh.

If you launch my dialogs directly, as PyGtk classes, many of them
support notification hooks (you give it a function pointer and
arguments to pass back when the repository is changed).

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Steve Borho