Re: [ANNOUNCE] yap: Yet Another (Git) Porcelain

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2008, 19:01 UTC
Message-ID: <200809062101.28672.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e06498070809060912q2f7ed0cflb02e3efc7b81976e@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Steven Walter wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > First, a question: how your yap porcelain differs from efforts of
> > EasyGit (eg) and Pyrite?
> 
> In the case of EasyGit, it differs in that yap's interface does not
> have the requirement of being fully backwards-compatible with core
> git.  Dropping that requirement gave me more freedom to simplify and
> clean-up the interface.

I can understand this. EasyGit is more about making git self documenting than anything more, from what I understand.

> To my knowledge, Pyrite does not support plugins.

As far as I know Pyrite is one-man work. Why not to join efforts, bringing those two projects together? Both share the same language, Python.

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> > And a request: could you add (short) information about your work to
> > Git Wiki: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools,
> > of course in the "Version Control Interface layers" section?
> 
> Done.

Thanks.

By the way, please take into account 
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yap_(disambiguation)

Most commonly known YAP is I think Yet Another Previewer, which is the name of the DVI viewer included on the widely used MiKTeX TeX distribution for the Microsoft Windows platform,

YAGP, or YA(G)P, is I think free of such conotations.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland