Re: files view in gitnum

[Justin Palmer]

Hi Zach, hope you don't mind but I sent this to the GitNub mailing list.

Nice!  This looks fantastic.

I am indeed interested in this and there is a direction I'd like to take gitnub that would allow anyone to implement a variety of plugins to do these types of things.

The idea is still in my head, but, as another example, I'd like to implement a Lighthouse specific view, however not everyone uses this as their bug tracker so I need a way to make this pluggable.

Basically, I see plugins having their own NIB and being loaded into a tab item.  Each plugin could create a button in the capsule (if it needed too).

So, say I wanted a Tickets view that listed projects in the source list and clicking on a project would show you tickets for that project.  I haven't done any extensive planning, but I see something like a Lighthouse.plugin that would be loaded with the application starts.  It has a controller that initializes with the application_controller instance passed to it.

# init.rb

// Use 'lighthouse' as the tabs identifier and require that your plugin's controller is named in the same fashion(e.g. LighthousePlugin).

Plugins.add_with_identifier('lighthouse')

class LighthousePlugin < SomeBasePlugin

 def init_with_application(app)

  @repo = app.repo

 end

end

Guess I could use sharedApplication too instead of passing in the delegate.

Again, this is all very rough ideas, but I'm interested in hearing if anyone has any other suggestions?

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Zach Wily <za...@mozy.com> wrote:

Justin,

I started implementing a file (blame) view for gitnub for fun (screenshot below). I'm interested in helping with gitnub development, but see that you don't like forks much cause of the .xib merging pain. Are you interested in this?

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