From: Jakub Narebski Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:01:26 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] yap: Yet Another (Git) Porcelain Message-ID: <200809062101.28672.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: [Back on git mailing list] On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Steven Walter wrote: > On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Jakub Narebski 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. > > 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. -- Jakub Narebski Poland