Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Octopy patches for nested tree view

[Rene Schallner]

On Thursday 05 May 2005 10:56, David Allouche wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:46 -0500, John A Meinel wrote:
> > David Allouche wrote:
> > > Nothing has happened to octopy for a very long time (more than one
> > > year), I think the original author has lost interest. If you feel up
> > > to it, you could probably adopt it.
> >
> > I was thinking the same thing. I also thought that it would be nice if
> > he could make it work with pyarch, and/or pybaz, since those seem to
> > be the most actively maintained python bindings.

Sounded like something sensible to do:  There are some commonly agreed most 
actively maintained python bindings for tla/baz -- so better use them (as 
a library) instead of having both python bindings _and_ GUI stuff in a GUI 
application.

> I would like that to happen (actually, octopy was one the projects that
> prompted the creation of pyarch in the first place), but I would not
> encourage it.
>
> PyArch has gone obsolete, as my focus in now on Bazaar, and PyBaz itself
> has little future.
>
> http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/PybazAndBzr
>
> If someone proposes improvements in pybaz, I will try to be more lenient
> in the next monthes since long term maintainability goals are now
> essentially void.

Now it is getting tricky.  For higher level user interfaces written in 
python (not necessarily GUIs), this is a bad situation:

pyarch got obsoleted in favour of pybaz (for bazaar).
pybaz will soon get obsoleted in favour of "bzr" (for bazaarNG).

(Note how it's all bazaar's fault :) )

Hmm.  When thinking about John's suggestion:  Would it be wise to 
re-animate pyarch?  Are there other python bindings for tla?  Ones that 
are actively maintained?

I think, for the near future, I'll stick to octopy's version of pyarch and 
change it if needed.  As for baz, I might get away with a minimal amount 
of changes to the existing code by making the name of the tla executable 
configurable (and some command / parameter names that go with it as well).

        -Rene

pgpHu7Hp5NYIh.pgp
Description: PGP signature