bzr serve --http ?

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 17:37 +1200, Michael Hudson wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > So loggerhead is newer better brighter etc etc.
> 
> Speaking of which, I just now merged the new_theme into loggerhead trunk:
> 
> https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~loggerhead-team/loggerhead/trunk

Cool.

> > I think its nicer than the hg webserve in nearly every regard these
> > days; except for one rather niggly thing:
> > '$bzr serve --http'
> > bzr: ERROR: no such option: --http
> > 
> > If this was fixed - that is, if loggerhead acted as a plugin as well as
> > a bzrlib user, then we would have a really nice integrated web server.
> 
> I started on this:
> 
> https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~mwhudson/+junk/bzr-loggerserve
> 
> Patches welcome etc.

No promises, but I'll certainly offer suggestions :)

> > There are probably a cluster of little bugs in loggerhead and bzr to fix
> > to make this happen, but - what do you all think?
> 
> It's a good idea.  I'm not sure how to do it just logistically -- I
> guess 'python setup.py install'/'apt-get install loggerhead' should
> install something in /usr/.../plugins/loggerserve?

One way is to just make loggerhead into a pure plugin; serve-branches
could easily be cmd_serve_branches and you get help etc for free.

You could look at any of the numerous plugins' setup.py files for the
recipe to install a plugin.

-Rob
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