Re: [Monotone-devel] Personal/Project/MtnSummit Introduction

[Philipp Gröschler]

Lapo Luchini wrote:
> OTOH a front-end in JSP could probably re-use much of the Eclipse-plugin 
> code, and help improve it.

I recently had a short chat with a guy who proposed to cede me his 
abandoned Java project. It also seems to integrate much of the Eclipse 
plugin code. When talking of improvements, I envisage some kind of a 
common Java library which could be shared not only between these two 
projects. But for the present, that's science fiction.

Unfortunately there have been a few days since his last reply. I if 
can't manage to speak to him during the next few days, it seems that I 
won't have a own piece of work to bring to the summit. Hey, if you read 
this, please get in contact ;-)

> OTOH a JSP front-end would generally be as difficult to install (for one 
> that doesn't know Tomcat and friends) as the Python-based one already is 
> (for one that doesn't know Python), so that could be a bit moot.

Personally for me it is much less difficult, since putting up a servlet 
container is rather easy compared to get Apache (or even Lighttpd) 
working with some Python plugin. I spend a very long night in trying so, 
without any success.

Also what bothers me is the fact that on the Linux distro I am using all 
available plugins are marked as unstable or experimental. I don't like 
putting unstable software on my productive server.

> In any case... welcome aboard this little ship where people generally 
> prefer to do things Right-and-Secure instead of Fast ;-)

Thanks again for the welcome! Right instead of fast, yes. That's an 
opinion my ex-boss would never agree in. Which is why he is now 'ex'.

Marcin W. Dąbrowski wrote:
> Mmm... If you need a li'l hand for PHP coding - count me in. I'd
> also like to see a PHP frontend for monotone, so I could put my
> 0.03€ in it...

That's good, I will keep that in mind. If that Java thing really emerges 
then I nevertheless would want to work on a PHP solution. And maybe 
Markus likes to have it, for one of his dumb servers ;-)

Greetings (from out of a thick rain cloud)

Philipp