Re: [RFC] git-gui USer's Survey 2007 (was: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?)

From: Jason Sewall <jasonsewall@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 28, 2007, 15:48 UTC
Message-ID: <31e9dd080711280748n30972cd1na8be3c705cc6fe93@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711281225150.27959@racer.site>

On Nov 28, 2007 7:32 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
> > Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > 1. What language and what toolkit should git-gui be written in?
> >    (single choice)
> >
> >    a. Tcl/Tk    (current implementation)
> >    b. C++/Qt
> >    c. C/GTK+
> >    d. Python    (native)
> >    e. Python/PyQt
> >    f. Python/PyGTK
> >    g. Ruby
> >    h. Java/Swing
> >    i. Java/SWT
> >    j. XUL+JavaScript+CSS/XULRunner
> >    k. other
> >    l. no opinion

Since we're listing off a bunch of toolkits, I should pitch FLTK, which is well-supported across platforms, reasonably featured, and pretty lightweight (probably much smaller than any of the other ones listed, in terms of dependency installs)

That said...

> Personally, I am quite comfortable with the existing implementation, and
> IMHO people dismiss contributing to git-gui too easily; Tcl is not all
> that complicated, and it is not hard at all to change/imitate existing
> code.

Agreed. I don't know much about Tcl/Tk, but I think that git-gui is fine as-is. It's not very "pretty" compared to all of the fancy Gtk apps the make up my system, but that's not an obstacle for me. (The fonts are pretty bad, though)

Jason