Shallow Rampa - Dawb - DArcs Web Browser

Dawb - DArcs Web Browser

by dixie on Date unknown

Tagged as: darcs, app.

Overview

Dawb is simple web based browser for the Darcs repositories. It allows quick check of repositories which are hosted on pure HTTP server without DarcsWeb or anything similar (patchtag, darcsden). Sometimes I need to check how alive is the some project without darcs command near the hand.

Accessible on:

http://handra.rampa.sk/dawb/changes

It serves also RSS feed.

Some operations are slow because:

• the dawb code is not optimized
• some darcs operations are slow on big repositories (e.g. darcs log <element>)
• served on shared low resource virtual machine

Complex queries can be slow and end fish timeout, usually the darcs log some-element

Features

• View repository changes (darcs log)
• Regex and element filter for changes view
• View files with syntax highlight (highlighting-kate)
• View changes with syntax highlight
• All information stored in URL - can be sent over IM or EMAIL
• RSS feed for repository changes

Known issues

View file functionality doesn’t work on repositories hosted on patchtag or darcsden. The reason is in assumption of dawb how to access file over HTTP.

Examples

Example repositories:

• http://ui3.info/darcs/epub-metadata/
• http://darcs.net/screened/
• http://darcs.net/reviewed/
• http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc
• http://code.haskell.org/hoogle
• http://code.haskell.org/xmonad
• http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib
• http://code.haskell.org/gtk2hs/
• http://darcs.nomeata.de/darcswatch/
• http://code.haskell.org/lambdabot

RSS feeds:

• RSS for http://darcs.net/
• RSS for http://wiki.darcs.net/

Installation

Software is not prepared for general usage and it has all configuration hardcoded. It starts local HTTP service on http://localhost:3000/changes after start.

$ darcs get --lazy http://darcsden.com/dixie/dawb
$ cd dawb
$ cabal install
$ dawb

Please be aware that it is still ALPHA quality software.

Download

• Source code repository (darcs) at http://darcsden.com/dixie/dawb