[PYRITE] Update on the status of pyrite.

[PYRITE] Update on the status of pyrite.

[Govind Salinas]

Here is the latest info on Pyrite.  The blog entry can be found here

http://pyrite.sophiasuchtig.com/2008/03/pyrite-gui.html

along with some screenshots of where the GUI part is headed.  The body of the
post is as follows....


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It has been a while since I have posted anything on here. Here is something to
make sure people know about the current status of pyrite. I have been working
toward getting pyrite able to handle the day to day activities of
being a git wrapper.
That is, it is a pass-through porcelain on top of git. The current
TODO list looks
something like this.

    * Get basic commands to run on the command line. (this one is mostly done,
      I just have to do some of the more interesting things like
rebase, cherry-pick
      etc)
    * Add support for styles and templates. Think pretty-print or
styles/templates
      under Hg. ( I can probably tag v0.1 at this point)
    * GUI (see below, should be v0.2)
    * Built-in HTTP server. This will be similar to hg serve and use a similar
     framework. The hg serve is very nice and one of the things that prompted me
     to start this. (v0.3)
    * Convert direct shell commands to c extensions that do the shell commands.
      This doesn't make much sense by itself, but is very nice for the
next step...(v0.5)
    * Convert to libgit where libgit is currently implemented. Only
part of git functions as
       a c library, so much will still have to be done in
sub-processes. This will probably
       take a while (v0.9)
    * Squeeze out bugs and I can call it v1.0.

After that we will see where things go. I expect that much of my work
will go into
converting the places where I am forced to run sub-processes to
library functions in git.

Now on to the fun part, the GUI.

Long ago, I was temted to create a GUI for git that ran on Windows and
was written in
C#. This was called Widgit. I did some work on it, but I could not convince my
co-workers to be interested in git, and without someone to use what I
was writting, it
seemed kind of pointless. Fast forward a few months and I started
working on Pyrite.
Since this was more geared to the Linux crowd, I felt I could use
python and GTK+ to
make the GUI, but I liked several of the Ideas that I had for Widgit
and I thought I could
reuse them. Here is what the basic view looked like...

http://bp2.blogger.com/_UFT2vGj15mM/R99T5sePnfI/AAAAAAAAAAU/UQwzPlwk3pU/
s320/Screenshot-Widgit.png


There was a status pane also...

http://bp2.blogger.com/_UFT2vGj15mM/R99UVsePngI/AAAAAAAAAAc/vRnHrlW3VCs/
s320/Screenshot-status-tree.png

I was also fairly proud of the commit view filter, which I thought was handy...

http://bp2.blogger.com/_UFT2vGj15mM/R99VAsePnhI/AAAAAAAAAAk/8TJkbWnuzKg/
s320/Screenshot-CommitFilter.png

And I plan to have all of these elements in Pyrite. Also, I really
like some of the things
I have seen in other GUIs that I want to borrow. For instance the graphical tree
structure of Giggle is very nice and done using Cairo. Also, it shows
the diffs a la gitk.

http://bp1.blogger.com/_UFT2vGj15mM/R99VhcePniI/AAAAAAAAAAs/7iK79-42OK0/
s1600-h/Screenshot--Giggle.png

So all these things are nice. I have done a little bit of work on the
GUI, but its just
getting started. Here you can see what the current status of it is...

http://bp1.blogger.com/_UFT2vGj15mM/R99V5cePnjI/AAAAAAAAAA0/RkbQlqdNl-o/
s1600-h/Screenshot-Pyrite.png

If anyone has any suggestions, I will be glad to hear them.

-Govind

Re: [PYRITE] Update on the status of pyrite.

[Jakub Narebski]

"Govind Salinas" <blix@sophiasuchtig.com> writes:

> Here is the latest info on Pyrite.  The blog entry can be found here
> 
> http://pyrite.sophiasuchtig.com/2008/03/pyrite-gui.html
> 
> along with some screenshots of where the GUI part is headed.  The
> body of the post is as follows....

If (or when) it is something that can be used already by end user,
i.e. at least beta quality, could you please add information about
Pyrite to http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
just below entry for (now unmaintained) Cogito.

The same applies for EasyGit, of course...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

Re: [PYRITE] Update on the status of pyrite.

[Govind Salinas]

On 3/18/08, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Govind Salinas" <blix@sophiasuchtig.com> writes:
>
>  > Here is the latest info on Pyrite.  The blog entry can be found here
>  >
>  > http://pyrite.sophiasuchtig.com/2008/03/pyrite-gui.html
>  >
>  > along with some screenshots of where the GUI part is headed.  The
>  > body of the post is as follows....
>
>
> If (or when) it is something that can be used already by end user,
>  i.e. at least beta quality, could you please add information about
>  Pyrite to http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
>  just below entry for (now unmaintained) Cogito.
>
>  The same applies for EasyGit, of course...
>
Sure thing, I will want to flush out at least the current command set
before doing so.

Thanks,
Govind.