[Monotone-devel] New BETA RC 1 Version Of Mtn-Browse

[Anthony Edward Cooper]

   Hello All,

   If you don't use Mtn-Browse or have no intention of doing so 
ordinarily then please delete...

   I'm looking for any mtn-browse users to volunteer to give this new 
version of Mtn-Browse a go and see how they get on. I have tested it on 
RH4.3 Debian 5 & 6. If you are a translator or package maintainer then 
please do not do either for this tar ball as it won't be released. All 
being well a release will will come shortly.

   The main change in this version is a new history graphing tool 
integrated into mtn-browse. The code should be production quality, at 
least that is my intent. The only reason this is at beta (is one allowed 
a beta release candidate? :-)) is because as yet there is no help for 
this graphing tool.

   This tool now has a dependency on Gnomes Canvas widget. If you have 
used monotone-viz then you'll have the library, but you may still need 
the Perl binding. Your distro or CPAN will be able to provide that for you.

   Usage:

   As before but the monotone-viz button now calls up the new graphing 
window.

   There are tooltips that will hopefully help and a right click menu. 
Boxes with grey borders are unselected but have been included for 
clarity (propagate nodes). Blue borders signify that the revision is on 
a suspended branch. Double clicking on a box with a grey border will 
graph that branch for you.

   Things To Test:

   Have a play and see how you get on :-).

   One particular thing I would like you to test is how reliably text 
is drawn on the graph. The version that runs by default should have no 
problems. However it is not particularly fast. There is another version 
that uses Gtk2::Labels widgets that runs a whole lot faster. To use this 
simply go to the lib/perl directory and rename the 
HistoryGraph-With-Labels.pm file to HistoryGraph.pm.

   Using labels is much faster but on some platforms (Debian 5) it 
doesn't really work. You need a really long history (but simple) and one 
can be found in mtn-browse's test branch in it's database:

https://code.monotone.ca/p/mtn-browse/source/tree/h:net.venge.monotone.contrib.mtn-browse.test.long-graph/

   If it works then all boxes should have text in the, when you graph it.

   If this is a bit much to ask then just have a play and see how you 
get on. If you do do the above test then please let me know how you got 
on and which OS you were using.

   mtn-browse runs on Linux and other assorted Unixes and Mac OSX.

   Richard - could you please test to see if your branch names with / 
characters issue has been fixed please.

   Thomas K - Could you give it a spin on OSX please...

   The tar ball can be got from here:

       http://www.coosoft.plus.com/downloads/mtn-browse-1.00-Beta-RC1.tgz

   MANY thanks in advance.

   Tony.