SVN plugin

[Matt Rogers]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 09:18:17AM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 November 2006 09:11, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:24:23PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > > On Monday 06 November 2006 14:25, Megan Webb wrote:
> > > > Is there a maintainer for the svn plugin?
> > > >
> > > > I submitted a patch for the diff command for now.
> > > >
> > > > I know there's a feature freeze, so don't want to do too much
> > > > there now.
> > > >
> > > > I think there is room to improve this plugin, and since I've started
> > > > using it, am willing to take this on if no one else is working on it..
> > > >
> > > > Is  working on a new/upgraded svn plugin?
> > > >
> > > > Please let me know so we don't duplicate efforts..
> > >
> > > FWIW, I have a student, Alexander Lyubitskiy, that is working on SVN GUI
> > > frontend, and there are plans to eventually make a KDevelop (4) plugin
> > > out of it.
> > >
> > > One important goal is to simplify handling of diffs and commits. For
> > > example, commit should pop up a window with entire diff where you can
> > > specify comments for individual changes, and exclude specific changes
> > > from commit, without going to other windows or manually reverting
> > > changes.
> > >
> > > Long-term plans include support for local history, and UI for merging
> > > changes between branches.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what's the right approach for cooperation would be -- for
> > > now, this project is completely standalone, and not ready for practical
> > > use. Maybe a Wiki with ideas would be good?
> > >
> > > - Volodya
> >
> > I don't think a GUI frontend for SVN matters for us unless there's going to
> > be an api provided for it that we can use in KDevelop. 
> 
> Have you missed the
> 
>     make a KDevelop (4) plugin out of it.
> 
> part in my email. I certainly don't propose to launch a separate program from 
> KDevelop ;-)
> 

Yes, I read that, but there are apparently different variations of what
the phrase "make a KDevelop plugin out of it" mean. And what I mean is
that for KDevelop we need to be able to define our own UI within the IDE
for subversion rather than attempting to graft another program's UI onto
ours.


> > I'd like to see some 
> > tighter integration with source control in KDevelop 4 compared to the 3.x
> > series 
> 
> Certainly.
> 
> > and I guess I need to organize my thoughts on that subject and put 
> > them on the KDevelop wiki.
> 
> Ok, great.
> 
> - Volodya
> 

Thanks
--
Matt