[Monotone-devel] monotone shortcomings against CVS (kind of TODO list) (was: Re: ANNOUNCE: monotone sync over ssh (stdio))

[Christof Petig]

Matt Johnston schrieb:
> Ah, excellent work, thanks a lot for getting that going :)
>
> It was one of the main things I've missed from CVS.

I take the opportunity of this outburst of joy to summarize the things 
where monotone still lacks for me currently (I might undertake to 
implement one or the other) [in descending order of importance to me]:

- send a mail to a list whenever a new manifest is pushed/commited to a 
database (kind of log from a (central) repository). It should contain 
the ChangeLog,author,date,branch certs of the new manifest. Perhaps 
using lua is a good idea to format the mail (cvs usually uses perl or 
bash scripts for this task)

- the ability for parallelized/resumed merges (see: 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monotone-devel/2004-05/msg00045.html). 
Graydon, what do you think about this? (It's the 3rd time I ask ;-/ )

- work with subsets of a manifest and/or supersets of several manifest 
(subset)s (like CVS modules). This still needs a proper design proposal 
(I don't have one).

[You see Changesets are not important to me at all ;-) ]

     Christof

PS: Can I expect a java-cairo binding soon (since you are busy 
elsewhere) ;-)