Subversion support for nautilus available in the near future?

["Buttchereit, Axel (XL)" <xl xlsigned net>]

Hello group,

browsing the GNOME CVS repository I found that someone (Matt Jones)
is working on a "subversion" or rather general "revision control"
interface for nautilus.

I would LOVE to use a frontend like TortoiseSVN (Windows-only)
on my linux/gnome desktop.

Does someone know when this feature will be released?

Cheers,
Axel


> * From: Chris Campbell <chris rockpaper ca>
> * To: nautilus-list gnome org
> * Subject: Nautilus-SVN
> * Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 19:58:12 -0700
>
> Hi All,
>
> I had the idea to write a Nautilus component more or less mirroring what
> the TortoiseSVN (and ToroiseCVS) do for Windows Explorer.
>
> In case you're not familiar with these open source projects, here are
> the relevant links:
>
>   TortoiseSVN - http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
>
>   TortoiseCVS - http://www.tortoisecvs.org/
>
> They are "shell extensions" for Windows Explorer that provide some
> version control capabilities -- such as the ability to add and remove
> files from version control, to update and commit changes, etc. -- using
> Subversion and CVS, respectively, for the version control.
>
> What I envision is basically an extension to the functionality provided
> by the FMListView component.  In addition to the standard [ File name,
> Size, Type, Date Modified ] columns there would also be some
> Subversion-related columns:  [ SVN Status, SVN Revision, ... ]  There
> would also be some context-menu items for adding/updating/committing
> files, etc.
>
> I'm writing to this list to get people's thoughts on this idea and also
> some suggestions for how to approach it from a programming perspective. 
> I'm a competent programmer but have no GNOME programming experience. 
> I've read Alexander Larsson's document "Nautilus - Inside the shell"
> which I found here:
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/whitepapers/nautilus/nautilus-internals.pdf
>
> > From that document I gleaned that I probably want to write a new
> NautilusView.  The document mentions that this is quite a lot of work,
> however, and I'm hoping that subclassing FMListView will save me some
> time.  (I will want to retain most of the FMListView functionality
> anyway, I think.)
>
> Please let me know your thoughts.
>
> Thanks,
> --Chris