Re: Are C++ contributions welcome?

From: Jose María Gómez Vergara <josemaria@jmgv.org>
Date: Jun 20, 2008, 16:11 UTC
Message-ID: <200806201811.01444.josemaria@jmgv.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90806200859r520d0593q367d6625a240595a@mail.gmail.com>

Good that is a really good news because I really like doing front-ends and GUI applications. I will take care of this.

On Friday 20 June 2008 17:59:09 Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Johannes Schindelin
>
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> I don't feel comfortable programing in C and I prefer C++ only because I
> >> have more experience using this one. May I contribute to this project in
> >> that language?.
>
> if you have UI/Win32 experience, a good friendly UI for newcomers to
> GIT is something we are lacking. Johannes got started with git-cheetah
> a while ago, and there is a similar project called TortoiseHg, either
> might be a good starting point.
>
> As Jakub noted, C++ is a reasonably good fit for UIs, and we are
> lacking those. We have a fantastic team of people doing C work on the
> core of git, and noone on GUIs. So I'd say yes, C++/UI help is
> something we need 'round here :-)
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m