Re: Bonsai

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Murray Cumming wrote:

> [snip]
>  
>
> > Of course, the above only lets you work with a single file -- it won't
> > tell you what other files were included in the same commit (which the
> > query db would allow).  With the query results page, you could click on
> > the link in the "+/-" (lines changed) column to display diffs.
> >    
>
> Is this query thing something that you intend to write from scratch, or
> something that exists already? I am slightly concerned about the wisdom of
> writing something new instead of using something that works already
> (bonsai/lxr).
>
> I have confidence that anything you write will be of high quality, and
> probably better, but it seems like it could make maintenance more
> difficult.
>  
This is code that exists in ViewCVS right now.  The query database code 
in ViewCVS has existed for a number of years now.

The only work I've done on it was some modifications to make the front 
end integrate better with the rest of ViewCVS (you get a "query revision 
history" link at the top of directory views) and added a few links to 
the results page that were available in Bonsai but not in ViewCVS.  
These changes have been merged upstream, so I'm not suggesting that we 
use a brand new Gnome specific revision history query system that we'd 
need to maintain.

James.