From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Summer of Code project ideas Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:02:14 +0100 Message-ID: <201103251402.16280.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <878vw4c8c5.fsf@fox.patthoyts.tk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff King , Shawn Pearce , Ramkumar Ramachandra , Jonathan Nieder , Jens Lehmann , Christian Couder , Thomas Rast , git , "J.H." , Paul Mackerras To: Pat Thoyts X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 25 14:02:42 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q36ez-000728-Bp for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:02:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752055Ab1CYNCa (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:02:30 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:56460 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751051Ab1CYNC3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:02:29 -0400 Received: by bwz15 with SMTP id 15so874621bwz.19 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:02:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; bh=QMxUhdrOeej8ljVzz57nSvY+QWKbT8Eee82q6MSxuDg=; b=KjPjK6q4mBAuwHmG+RF7X/tELuzbSTFN479SjSd9K2QPySXHEEizfo7PvLwic5U5AI a6lNY7KczT+QlMQcqdtcngtuBRz8YBm8UII0k5mO4zua6PpuLcgfO4AcsRoprxIz4hbA nush6f2CWgIbdpSI9pVEK/lYI0efWJbW7FxoY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=QgPOFMzbjUkXgunsIO0HZ2MjPU5ZUZprD7QfLZGlpsaIhttWpacPAKUlNNN9Lw0wYG eEpYrIxKTtAnAA023wtXGN5xw0HkZila546cvTfH2X1GZKOEqEsDxwxmUiD6QxW267fN ojTlGpXkg6JiKQf0h+1qFJ550q2+kQyT/SFrQ= Received: by 10.204.175.194 with SMTP id bb2mr726653bkb.121.1301058148435; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:02:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.13] (abwk172.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.234.172]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w3sm718584bkt.17.2011.03.25.06.02.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:02:25 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <878vw4c8c5.fsf@fox.patthoyts.tk> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Pat Thoyts wrote: > Jakub Narebski writes: > > A few project ideas I am not sure if they are feasible for GSoC: > > * embedding graphical diff and graphical merge tool in git-gui, e.g. as > > "git gui diff". I think that we can use xxdiff; the license is > > compatibile. > > > > Pat and Shawn, is it something worth doing? Does it look like a good > > project for GSoC2011, or is it too small of a project for this? Would > > we be able to find mentor for this idea? > > There is also tkdiff for stealing from. I'm not sure about the worth - > there are lots of free merge tools around. But if someone wants to do > that then fine. I meant TkDiff, not xxdiff here; I'm sorry for the mistake. TkDiff has the advantage that is already written in Tcl/Tk, so we can borrow code (like e.g. "refining" diff), not only algorithms. > > * splitting gitk, common library (Tcl/Tk bindings) for gitk and git-gui > > > > Pat and Paul, do you think it is right scope, or is it too large project > > to put as an GSoC idea? > > It shouldn't be too large. You are likely looking at doing Git.pm as a > Tcl package (without looking in much detail). Testing that gitk and > git-gui didn't get broken will probably be tedious. So adding some test > suite to each could help. The Tcl test package is quite capable of being > used to test Tk apps provided some tests get written. I thought that would be mainly re-using library part of git-gui in gitk; tests are decidely a good idea, though I don't know if there are ready tools to do tests for programs written in Tcl/Tk , and for testing UI. -- Jakub Narebski Poland