Pylons based replacement for hgwebdir

Fully customizable, with authentication, permissions. Based on vcs library.

Overview

• has it's own middleware to handle mercurial protocol request each request can be logged and authenticated + threaded performance unlikely to hgweb
• full permissions per project read/write/admin access even on mercurial request
• mako templates let's you cusmotize look and feel of appplication.
• diffs annotations and source code all colored by pygments.
• mercurial branch graph
• admin interface for performing user/permission managments as well as repository managment
• backup scripts can do backup of whole app and send it over scp to desired location
• setup project descriptions and info inside built in db for easy, non file-system operations
• added cache with invalidation on push/repo managment for high performance and always upto date data.
• rss /atom feed customizable
• future support for git
• based on pylons 1.0 / sqlalchemy 0.6

Incoming

• code review based on hg-review (when it's stable)
• git support (when vcs can handle it)
• other cools stuff that i can figure out

Installation

• create new virtualenv and activate it
• download hg app from default (not demo) branch from bitbucket and run 'python setup.py install' this will install all required dependencies needed
• goto pylons_app/lib and run python db_manage.py it should create all needed tables and an admin account. You can play with this file if you wish to use different db than sqlite
• edit file repositories.config and change the [paths] where you keep your mercurial repositories, remember about permissions for accessing this dir by hg app.
• run paster serve development.ini the app should be available at the 127.0.0.1:5000
• use admin account you created to login.
• default permissions on each repository is read, and owner is admin. So remember to update those.