From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 07:26:52 GMT
Subject: Re: FFmpeg considering GIT
Message-ID: <20070508072651.GA1554@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <17983.6136.147062.346626@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:13:44PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> I have thought about rewriting it in a different language, but I
> haven't found anything that really appeals.  I don't want to go to
> C/GTK or C/Qt since that would make it hard to port to Windows and
> MacOS AFAIK.  Python/Tk would be a possibility, but I have never
> learnt python and I'm actually not all that comfortable with having to
> do things the object-oriented way.
> 
> Any suggestions?

I just ran across this today (it was just packaged for Debian):

  http://developer.imendio.com/projects/giggle

It seems to be a C/GTK repository browser (but also with a few git-gui
type features). It doesn't seem very far along (the viewer barfs on the
git.git repo, but shows some of my simpler repos), but it might worth
starting a dialogue with those guys.

-Peff