[dev] Fw: chora: subversion support, MIME handling...

[Jay Freeman (saurik)]

DOH, didn't realize I hadn't yet confirmed being on the dev@ list before I
sent this :).

Sincerely,
Jay Freeman (saurik)
saurik at saurik.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Freeman (saurik)" <saurik at saurik.com>
To: <chora at lists.horde.org>
Cc: "horde-dev" <dev at lists.horde.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: chora: subversion support, MIME handling...


> Roman:
>
> OK, I'm on the Chora list (which seemed like a more accurate fit for
talking
> about Chora stuff). I hadn't even leard of the general development list
> until I got this e-mail. :)
>
> The point about the diff library that was noticed in August was already
> fixed in August. :) Is there some other problem that didn't get caught?
>
> Currently I'm still on Subversion 0.26.0. I haven't been at a good
stopping
> point in the last month or two to dump all my repositories and bring them
up
> to the new version. I just tested and, at least with 0.26.0, the current
> version of Subversion support on Chora's CVS works (well, with an almost
> week old version of Horde itself). I might be at a good position to
upgrade
> soon, remarkably enough... we just did a rather large merge on our 3D
engine
> code base yesterday so things are going to quiet down for a bit.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jay Freeman (saurik)
> saurik at saurik.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roman Neuhauser" <neuhauser at bellavista.cz>
> To: "horde-dev" <dev at lists.horde.org>
> Cc: "Jay Freeman (saurik)" <saurik at saurik.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 8:08 AM
> Subject: chora: subversion support, MIME handling...
>
>
> > I have a couple of unrelated questions...
> >
> > What is the current state of things WRT $SUBJECT? The basics work, but
> > there's a lot more information Chora could present to the user, and
> > the whole thing is still quite cvs-specific (e. g. cvs.php, co.php).
> >
> > So, my question is: where is Chora heading? Is there interest in talking
> > about / receiving patches that further the svn support? Looks like the
> > chora module has been quite quiet.
> >
> > Chora::fatal() is called in different places with two arguments, but
> > the method is defined to only accept one; plus, it has a slight WTF
> > factor with regard to Horde::fatal(), which is a completely different
> > animal. What *should* it look like?
> >
> > Checkout display 'prettification' ignores files without extensions
> > like Makefiles, because MIME_Magic() doesn't even consider such files,
> > and chora thus calls MIME_Magic::extToMIME() instead of potentially[1]
> > more useful MIME_Magic::filenameToMIME(). The fix belongs to MIME_Magic,
> > what do you want it to look like?  BTW, this is a regression:
> > http://lists.horde.org/archives/chora/Week-of-Mon-20020722/003314.html
> >
> > As a final note, as you probably know by now, the reason why svn(1)
> > broke passing random arguments to diff (noted in august on chora@) is
> > that it now uses an internal diffing library by default; you have to
> > configure it to use an external diff binary.
> >
> > [1] MIME_Magic::filenameToMIME() throws this vital information away
> > anyway.
> >
> > --
> > If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore
> > your message.    see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html