Video Introduction to Mercurial Frontend

[David Arcoleo]

So the whole bit about creating the repo, etc was really slick.  I
have some questions though.

Why did you decide to start from scratch instead of adding to Trac?
Not that I'm a hard-core fan of trac, but I'm curious.  Trac has the
wiki, issue tracking and decent source viewing.  I only like the
source viewing personally, but I know many people like it because it's
reasonably close to an all-in-one package.

Roundup is my favorite issue tracker.  It's also pure python.  Did you
look at integrating w/ it?

As I said before, very slick.  In particular if it can eventually be
easy_installed and provide an all-encompassing solution.  Even better
if it itself could use mercurial.  For small projects anyway, that
would be fantastic.  I use JSPWiki (flat file wiki) + everything else
python because I like to use mercurial to save everything.  Moinmoin
can also save to the file system but doesn't really integrate with
mercurial.

Another thing I though was very nice was your demo of showing how for
every project you can or are expected to create multiple sub repos.
The forest extension I bet is underused.  That sort of thing should be
part of mercurial itself.  Your interface guides users very well
towards this best practice.

Very nice indeed.

-Dave

On Jan 19, 2008 6:09 PM, Tane Piper <digitalspaghetti at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I've put together a small video of our new mercurial application in action:
>
> http://digitalspaghetti.me.uk/2008/01/19/video-introduction-to-mercurial-frontend-hgfront
>
> Please feel free to comment on what you see.  We're hoping to have a
> public release soon, at the moment it's functional but not pretty and
> not ready for production use.
>
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