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List:       kwrite-devel
Subject:    subversions markers in icon border
From:       Will Angenent <will.angenent () ntt ! eu>
Date:       2008-12-18 22:13:25
Message-ID: 494ACB05.4070105 () ntt ! eu
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Hi,

I've been thinking about an overambitious project I'm looking into, and 
that's to have markers in the icon border showing which lines have been 
added/edited/deleted since the last cvs/git/svn commit. For example, see 
the green and blue things on the side of this screenshot of netbeans:
http://www.collab.net/collabXchange/NetBeans/images/svn.gif

Integrating it with the KateIconBorder seems easy enough. I haven't 
looked into the rest of the nitty gritty stuff yet. I'd like to hear 
what you think about these questions:

1. Do I use cervisia or kdesvn? They both seem like separate projects. 
Is it going to be worth my time to try and use them? Also, I'm going to 
want git support in there too. I'd have to write something brand new for 
git.
2. Do I use cvs/svn/git libraries or command line tools? If I use 
libraries, how does this work when using/compiling kate when those ones 
aren't available? Am I better off writing a wrapper around the command 
line binaries cvs, svn, git? Or should it be some dynamic library 
loading thing?
3. To keep things up to date, regular calls to "cvs/svn/git status" will 
have to be made to see if a commit has been done in the background. 
Should this be done on a one second timer or something? An alternative 
for svn is to check the .svn/text-base directory for changes, since the 
commit will update a file in there, so I can use inotify/kdirwatch or 
something.

If I don't get horribly demotivated and actually pull this off, I could 
continue to add more functions, but one step at a time!

Thanks for your thoughts & comments,
Will
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