[Monotone-devel] ViewMTN doesn't show the contents of files, getfile.py missing?

[Ludovic Brenta]

Hi folks,

I've set up an experimental ViewMTN server at
http://www.ada-france.org:8081.  This is the standalone server, so no
mod_python or apache around.  The server is Debian Etch with the
following packages installed to support ViewMTN:

monotone 0.31-6
gnome-icon-theme
python-cheetah

The ViewMTN server itself is a checkout of net.angrygoats.viewmtn,
currently at revision 7b40124b48efc337e16111a658ac636ae50ac52e (the
current head).

The problem: ViewMTN doesn't show the contents of files; for an
example see

http://www.ada-france.org:8081/revision/file/3181b16984c8ac8349456c61ecb7f8bb5d664281/README

I think the cause is that there is no getfile.py on the system.
Searching the Debian package database, I can see only one package that
contains it: python-subversion contains a
/usr/share/doc/python-subversion/examples/getfile.py.

I'm reluctant to install python-subversion, because it depends on
subversion itself, and because the examples directories are not and
should not be on the Python load path.

How about adding getfile.py to ViewMTN?  Or should I get it from
another place?

Also, the checkout contains a subdirectory "web" that appears to be a
copy of the package python-webpy.  I suggest that this directory be
removed from ViewMTN and a dependency added in the README file
instead.

Thanks!

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.