Re: [Monotone-devel] ikiwiki monotone support

[William Uther]

On 14/01/2008, at 1:41 PM, Brian May wrote:

> > > > > > "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     Zack> If you were interested in improving Monotone.pm to the  
> point where it
>     Zack> wouldn't be an embarrassment to the archive, I'd be happy  
> to add a
>     Zack> monotone-perl binary package.
>
> Yes, I am interested. What needs to be done?

I'm not a perl hacker.  Having someone who actually knows perl read  
it over and check
that there are no obvious clangers would be a good start :).

The next step would be to clean up the interface to make it a little  
more perl-esque.
I wrote the interface as I learned about perl and mtn automate, and  
added what I needed.

At the moment it just calls the automate interface, it doesn't do any  
parsing.  Adding
that parsing would be a huge step forward, but that is a much larger  
job.

> > > 2. Defaults for --confdir --rcfile --keydir seem can't be  
> > > changed. The
> > > defaults seem to be strange.
>
>     Zack> I don't see any settings of these in Monotone.pm -- so  
> you're getting
>     Zack> the defaults for the binary.
>
> Yes, I suspect so. Probably need to allow setting at least --keydir
> and --rcfile (for the keyphrase hook). I am not sure what --confdir is
> for though - is it needed?

Adding --rcfile might be a good idea, but, as I noted in my last  
email, --keydir is
the only one that is really needed.  You can use the _MTN/monotonerc  
file in the
ikiwiki workspace for any hooks you want to add.

Cheers,

Will       :-}