On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > I'm glad you liked it. ubuntudiff¹ was made exactly to show this kind of > data. Currently, all ubuntudiff needs to produce html pages in some file > listing source package names and associated patches. So, nothing is really > bound to patches.ubuntu.com, except the syntax of (the equivalent of) > sources.patches.
Ok great. I can output different formats for the patch index if needed and indeed I will need to be generating a set of global indices, which doesn't exist at the moment. > It is easy to set up an ubuntudiff instance for each set of derivative > patches, but I guess some changes have to be implemented to have a unified > interface for all those derivatives (i.e. all patches accessible from a > single place). Indeed that would be required. > Current ubunutdiff uses grep-dctrl to select a list of packages. I think > that people don't like that much, and they usually find it not easy to > use. We will have to think about a better interface. Personally I don't have much experience with grep-dctrl so that interface is not that useful to me. IIRC UbuntuDiff has a URL interface too which services like DDportfolio or the PTS use or could use. > About source code, it is written in OCaml. I realize that OCaml is not the > best candidate if we want people to contribute patches (or even have a > look at the code) :) It depends on who wants to contribute here. I'm open > to suggestions… > > A nice feature that I'd like to keep is visualisation of patches by hunk… > this will require a parser to read unified diffs. > > In any case, I'd be happy to help here to implement and setup this new > service. I'm personally not able to read/write OCaml but if you are willing to implement the features needed for derivatives stuff then -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6grwgczhwhsvrnn-tqrlpzeqfq0tseqj-c6yxqnk1b...@mail.gmail.com
