ditrack

[Vlad Skvortsov]

Alex Schearer wrote:
> I am interested in learning more about your project, specifically I  
> found your project through the tigris open source community and saw  
> you imagined one day having a web interface.  I would be interested  
> in helping you develop a web interface in PHP, could you tell me some  
> more about the project, and also whether such an interface is even  
> reasonable to consider at the moment.  I have only just downloaded  
> your source code, so I have not looked it over yet, but from the  
> description it seems like using a SVN package -- for example the one  
> available on Pear -- it could be written solely with PHP.  As time  
> permits I will explore the source code and functionality, hope to  
> hear from you, Alex.
>   
Hey Alex,

yes, indeed we are considering developing a web interface for the 
project. Initially the plan was to implement a read-only version of that 
in 0.5, but it looks like it won't happen. Right now we are laying a 
groundwork for disconnected/distributed operations and it appears to be 
a fair amount of work involving the very core of the system. So we've 
decided to move this task to at least 0.6, which will probably happen 
around Feb.

As for integrating a web interface, we are planning to build a Python 
module (for the start at least) providing DITrack-specific API. Thus, 
any DITrack-based application (including a web interface) will operate 
solely through this API, without accessing a database directly. Sure, 
support for other languages (such as PHP) is envisioned too, but first 
we are going to concentrate on low hanging fruits to get the task done.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Vlad Skvortsov, vss at 73rus.com, http://vss.73rus.com