[Monotone-devel] Polytony

[Nathaniel Smith]

So, yesterday I got sufficiently annoyed at xvcg that I decided to do
something about it, and threw together a little graphical ancestry
browser in Python.  It's called "polytony", though I'm not entirely
sure why. Some sort of collision of "monotone" with the whole "py"
thing, I guess.  Anyway, if anyone wants to try playing with it, it's
in my depot (http://njs.myrathi.com/~njs/monotone/depot.cgi) in the
group "polytone", branch "polytone".  It's already scratching an itch
for me, and should be pretty hackable; hopefully it can serve as a
testbed for monotone scriptability, interface mockup, that sort of
thing.

Here's the README:

This is Polytony, an experimental GUI interface to Monotone histories.
Copyright (C) 2003 Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden>.  Consider it
licensed under the FSF's GPLv2+.

There's quite a bit of kluging in it, but I still find it quite useful.
So far it can do (really stupid) layout of ancestry, and then let you
view certs, diff different versions, and checkout particular versions
directly on the graphical representation.  (Try left-clicking and
right-clicking on the nodes.  To diff two nodes, you right click on
one, select "diff", then click on another.  You click them in the
same order you would list them on the command line.  To cancel, just
click on the background.)

The diffing won't work properly unless you have a version of monotone
with my patch to the 'diff' command, which you can get from my depot.
(in version 7a30b8b8ee780d49fcf66729f30591c14902b848 /
tawaf-edamo-owido-dedak-upado-pifek-udoso-wenuk-lokel-eboze)

There are a lot of ways it could be improved; see TODO.

To run it, for now do 
   python run.py <path to monotone> <path to monotone db>
in this directory.

You probably need Python 2.3, and you definitely need wxWindows.
I'm using wxGTK+ v2.4.1; not sure which other versions work.

-- Nathaniel

-- 
Details are all that matters; God dwells there, and you never get to
see Him if you don't struggle to get them right. -- Stephen Jay Gould