[ANNOUNCE] Push / Pull / Clone GUI - PushMePullYou

[Mark Williamson]

Replying to myself, but hey ;-)

Have now added (highlights, possibly not full list):
* run external history tool
* start / stop an hg server from GUI
* graphical improvements
* performance improvements
* fully working favourites / bookmarks support
* better support for keyboard operation
* slightly ugly distutils installation support
* an hg extension adding an "hg pmpu" command that should run pmpu in the root 
of the current repository

The preferences support uses a slightly weird manufacturer name at the 
moment - sorry ;-)

I only want to guarantee alpha quality with associated caveats about bugs at 
this point - but I'm much more happy with the functionality offered and the 
usability of the app now.

I guess I'll put out an official 0.1 release at some point when I've given it 
a bit more testing and polished / fixed whatever proves necessary.

Happy New Year!

Cheers,
Mark

On Sunday 30 December 2007, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > Wonderful!  I had just been thinking about writing something like this
> > (need something to make use of my new pyqt book).
> >
> > But, did you forget to include clone.ui?
>
> Yes, I did forget to include it - good point :-)
>
> I'd forgotten to commit it to the repository so it didn't get pushed out to
> Xenbits with the rest.  I've now pushed that out, plus a load more updates
> (adding basic "Favourites" support for frequently-cloned repositories,
> support for running a commit tool such as Qct, etc).
>
> The code is all quite ugly.  I've been mainly hacking stuff up that "works
> for me", rather than trying to make it production-quality, or pretty.  I'm
> also learning QT4 and QT designer "on the job" as I'm writing it.
>
> I can say that I'm using pmpu to help manage its own development.  For
> instance, when I finished the most recent feature I ran ./pmpu and then
> used the "Commit Tool..." button to fire up Qct.  After the commit, the new
> changeset appeared in the "Outgoing" list and I hit "push" to send it
> upstream.  It actually worked :-O
>
> I can't guarantee that the code won't do something nasty, but it's probably
> suitable for somebody who can figure out how to build it and wants to play
> around with it!
>
> Updates will continue to arrive at http://xenbits.xensource.com/maw/pmpu.hg
> and I'll be very interested to hear from anyone who tries it out or has
> suggestions / problems.
>
> More features next, then cleaning up the GUI to not be too horrible ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Mark



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