RE: [Monotone-devel] NetBeans

[Eran Klonover]

I am preparing to invest some time in performing NetBeans integration, as I
find Monotone to provide a real neat methodology and implementation.

I would first like to implement commands that work with the local database,
as they are pretty similar to CVS. Syncing with a server can always be done
from outside the IDE.

A problem I have encountered when trying to design such an implementation is
that the IDE requires a state for each source file (the main need is to
display what files exist on the working directory and not on the local
database). I can't find a direct monotone command to perform that - and I
can understand why. 
Does anyone have an idea how can this be performed?

Thanks,
Eran

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 7:02 PM
> To: Jon Bright
> Cc: Eran Klonover; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Monotone-devel] NetBeans
> 
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Jon Bright wrote:
> > I'm very interested in an Eclipse plugin... but I have very little time
> to
> 
> ditto on both fronts, I'm sure a good ide plugin will help a lot with
> encouraging people to try monotone out too.
> 
> > devote.  If there's general progress in the direction of having a
> working
> > generic java plugin, I could maybe find the time to add Eclipse support
> to
> 
> yeah, my basic assumption is that most ide's will have some form of vcs
> adapter api. then we need something representing monotone that such an
> adapter can target. so what I'm working towards is a generic, layered java
> wrapper around the monotone executable which translates java method calls
> into their associated monotone commands, executes them, parses their
> output into something sensible and returns that.
> 
> this much is basically working, and I've started to look at using it to
> build a plugin for the intellij ide but there are a few issues. this ide
> at least likes to check the status of files rather frequently and issuing
> monotone commands for all of these requests is rather slow. so I've also
> started on wrapping the basic execution functionality above in a caching
> thing to try and help out performance.
> 
> I'll do my best to get the database this lives in converted to 0.16 format
> and put up a netsync server for people to see in the next few days, time
> permitting.
> 
> As a general question, would people and in particular Graydon :) like to
> see this in the off.net repository, perhaps in a branch like
> net.venge.monotone.plugins or something?
> 
> Cheers,
> Derek