RFC - Include xmloutput in Windows standalone package?

[Guillermo Gonzalez]

Hi!

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Vincent Ladeuil<v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote:
>>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net> writes:
>
>    Ian> Martin Pool wrote:
>    >> I have no objection to putting it there, but I'd also like to see the
>    >> general facility of getting xml output merged to core.  I don't know
>    >> how ready that code is.
>
[snip]
>
> Having fixed a few bugs there, I think the test coverage is quite
> decent and above the average for a plugin.

~90% of the tests are taken from bzr test suite, e.g: the xmllog tests
are the xml version of the log tests.
And a lot of the code is a modified version of the builtin command,
e.g: xmlls is a slight mofication of the builtin ls command.
If we actually are going to move xmloutput into the core, it would be
great if some of the code duplication can be fixed/refactored in order
to ease the maintenance, this might also work for the test suite

>
>    Ian> Easier bzr-eclipse installation is one driver
>
> and would be vastly simplified if we get rid of OS locks
> (Guillermo (bzr-xmloutput and bzr-eclipse author) explained me
> that this seems to be the only blocker forbidding the use of
> jython), he may explain that better than me.

Yes, at least the last time I tried to run bzr under Jython the main
issue with OS Locks was the missing fcntl module.
Having bzr running on Jython will simplify the integration with Java
based IDE's: Eclipse, NetBeans and IDEA.

>
> Guillermo, would you be so kind to as to summarize ?

Sure :)
Apologize the delay.

>
>         Vincent
>

Regards,

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Guillermo Gonzalez
<http://launchpad.net/~verterok>