Re: The future of gitweb (long term goals)

Jakub Narebski venit, vidit, dixit 14.02.2011 20:39:

Now that we are talking about future of git, including breaking some
of backwards compatibility bugs / misdesigns for 1.8.0, perhaps it is
the time to discuss long term goals and the future of gitweb.

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Current requirements are:
- Perl 5.8.x (for proper Unicode / UTF-8 support)
- core Perl modules: CGI, Encode, Fcntl, File::Find, File::Basename,...
- non-core Perl modules optional, needed for some of extra features
- backward compatibility (query params and path_info URLs)

I'd second that this is important for adaption by some main users.

- easy installation even without admin rights
- scanning for repositories (as an option)
- lightweight

All of these are important for instaweb also. I consider instaweb a very
underrated feature! (It also needs some works of love, not just
appreciation, of course.)

1. Splitting gitweb into modules (packages), for better maintainability.

Also, this may help including other optional parts. The graph viewer as
used on repo.or.cz sets gitweb apart from quite a few alternatives and
would be used more widely if it were an optional module shipping with
gitweb. Just imagine instaweb with graphs ;)
Also, being part of gitweb, the viewer may attract a few coders.

Michael