From: Eygene Ryabinkin Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:50:04 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added make options NO_GUI and WITH_P4IMPORT. Message-ID: <20070321115004.GB14837@codelabs.ru> In-Reply-To: Johannes, good day. Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:16:40PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Will try to implement. But still, NO_GUI should ban the GUI tools from > > being built and installed, because user can have the Tcl/Tk available, > > but have no intention to use the git GUI. Am I right? > > I am not quite certain if I agree. With a similar reasoning, you could > introduce a flag to prevent pull-request from being installed, and > git-tag, or other rarely used functions. Is it so bad to have gitk and > git-gui installed? I am happening to develop on some machines on which I have no X-Windows or any GUI providers at all, so I prefer not to have the Tcl/Tk dependency at all. Once again, the patch was originally done for the FreeBSD where the port system installs the dependencies automatically. And I do not need the Tcl/Tk on some machines: imagine the server that uses Git for its configuration tracking. It is server, there is absolutely no need for any GUIs there. And one of my developing machines has no X-Windows, so Tcl/Tk is again useless. This is the reasons for the NO_GUI knob. As it is turned off by default it does not breaks the expectations of the users who are used to the git GUI tools. > I mean, you are likely to just try them (and possibly > like them!) at some stage, because the graphical representation is so much > clearer than what _any_ text representation can do. Yes, sometimes I use the graphical representation. But there are use-cases when no GUI is needed at all. -- Eygene