Mac OS X gui

Matt O'Brien mazatty at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 12:16:33 CDT 2007


hello all,

i know there is work on a mercurial gui for 10.5, but that is not
going to do me much good now or for many months. that and i still have
a 10.3 machine where i would like a mercurial gui.

i've started some work on a gui for mac os x using PyObjC. the gui
itself, nib file, needs some work and the whole PyObjC thing is taking
me a little longer than i was hoping. i'm not parsing output from the
hg command, rather calling the mercurial functions directly from the
python module.

one of my main goals is to have a nice mac application for revision
control of projects where i wouldn't normally use the command line.
like my recipes for work, where i use NeoOffice or Smultron to edit
files.

some initial thoughts include. the status of files in the working
directory would be monitored and show up in the gui instantly. user
could be notified to changes of the status of files, popup dialog,
growl notifications. a single window with sheets, but that could
easily change. maybe global key commands, a service possibly, to
commit the project that the file in the current window belongs to.

anybody want to help?


matt


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