A darcs repository browser is now online for the
Phly channel.
If you're not familiar with darcs,
it's a revision control system, similar to GNU Arch
and git; changes are kept as patch sets, and
repositories are branched simply by checking them out. This makes darcs
repositories very flexible, and incredibly easy to implement. Static
binaries are available for most systems, which makes it easy to install on
systems to which you have no administrator rights.
A perl CGI script is shipped with darcs, and provides a web-based repository
viewer. It utilizes darcs' --xml-output switch to create XML, which is
then transformed using XSLT. However, there are some issues with the script;
it is somewhat difficult to customize, and makes many assumptions about your
system (location of configuration files, repositories, etc.). To make it
more flexible, I ported it to PHP, using Cgiapp2
and its XSLT template plugin and Phly_Config.
I have released this PHP darcs repository browser as Phly_Darcs,
which contains both a Model and Controller, as well as example XSLT view
templates. It is currently in beta as I'm still developing PHPUnit2 tests
for some of the model functionality, as well as debating the ability to add
write capabilities (to authenticated users only, of course).
Update: fixed links to internal pages to use absolute urls.
