[Catalyst] [ANNOUNCE] Gitalist - bringing Catalyst to gitweb

[Stephen Sykes]

Thanks for posting this to the list, Dan. I have been thinking of the
same type of project recently. I am glad this is a Github project as
well. ;)

Best Regards,
Stephen Sykes
[http://catalystsites.org]

Dan Brook wrote:
> For those of you who've had the pleasure of working with git you
> may have come across gitweb, the web front end to a given set of git
> repositories. It is bundled with the git source[1] as gitweb.perl and
> gets munged into gitweb.cgi after make runs through it. With gitweb.cgi
> you have one monolithic CGI program that provides the whole gamut of its
> web app functionality from grovelling in git repos to providing feeds for
> commits. This being a Catalyst list you can probably see where I'm going
> with this ...
>
> Having decided at work[2] that we needed to extend gitweb to support stuff
> useful to us I thought it would be easier to move gitweb into a Catalyst
> app than build on the existing script. After a week or two of idle hacking
> I've got it to the point where it's wrapped in Catalyst and has a basic
> layout template and a single controller. The work for this can be found here:
>
> http://github.com/broquaint/Gitalist/tree/master
>
> And here (thanks to t0m for sorting this out!):
>
> ro git://git.shadowcat.co.uk/catagits/Gitalist.git rw
> catagits at git.shadowcat.co.uk:Gitalist.git
>
> It should noted at this point that the name "Gitalist" is intentionally
> quite bad in the hope that once the foundation work of moving in gitweb
> into a Catalyst structure is done it can move on from being "gitweb in
> Catalyst" and on to something bigger and better.
>
> Being a total Catalyst novice there's bound to be all sorts of mistakes
> and assumptions that could be straightened out so please feel free to
> fork'n'fix. If you have any queries, questions or quips drop me a line,
> I go by the handle broquaint on IRC and the web at large.
>
> Thanks to Venda for the time to do the dev and letting the code be open
> sourced. Also thanks to t0m and chrisa for the encouragement to do the
> work and push it out to the community.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan Brook
>
> [1] http://xrl.us/gitwebperl
> [2] Venda
>
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