Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Having two precommit hooks

[John Meinel]

David Allouche wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 21:55 +0200, David Allouche wrote:

[...]
> Ooops. I mean "tla will not provide support for (2)".

I understood what you meant. :)

> > Then aba was created as proof-of-concept for such wrappers. Apparently,
> > Tom's position has not changed, so you should probably turn to fai, the
> > successor of aba.
> >
> > A related discussion, that you have not touched yet, is whether there
> > should be one official front-end to tla, and what should it be.

Well, I would like to switch to fai, but for some reason it doesn't seem 
to run under cygwin. I had a little bit of trouble with symlinks, though 
I thought I fixed that.

So I generally use aba.

As far as an "offical frontend", the only one I'm aware of is 
aba/fai/whatever the new name is.

So I'd call it the de-facto standard front end. :)

Actually, I've used fai on Linux, and I'm quite happy with it. 
Especially the "fai shell" mode.

I know I have friends who would really like to see more GUI front-ends. 
(Something like WinCVS, TortoiseCVS, or Cervisia, where you have a path 
browser, and it will tell you the current state of the files, give you 
diffs/history, etc.). The closest one I know if is Octopy, but I'm 
guessing that hasn't really been maintained.
Since it is also a python app, it would probably be nice if it was 
modified to use the nice python wrapper instead of it's own. That way if 
tla is ever librified, octopy would get it for free as well. And there 
would be less redundant code.

I would be interested in writing a wxPython gui interface, but I have to 
actually finish my dissertation, so there is not much of a chance for 
the next few months.

Are there other front-ends that people use? I know there is quite a few 
tla-contrib scripts, but that's not really a front end, just a 
collection of helpful things.

I guess there is xtla, though I think of it as an emacs plugin, not a 
front end. Simply because I don't know emacs (I'm a vim user), and I 
don't know what kind of benefit vs time to learn emacs just to use xtla.

John
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