Re: [RFC] Common library for Git GUIs

Hi,

I don't know if it is possible to elect a toolkit. Each toolkit is good.

Concerning the design of the library, I think it is better to split the library into different layers. The part of the e-world I know concern Gtk/Gnome, so I will use it for my example.

IMHO, it should be interesting to build a library containing only GObject'ification of Git and some wrappers/helpers to construct these objects. For example, some objects to represent authors, commits, branches, remotes and so on. Coupled to these base-types, this library should provide solutions to construct these base-types (wrappers around Git commands and/or internal files). This library can be named libgit-glib for example. Such library can help developement of current UI (giggle, gitg, anjuta-git plugin, and probably others I don't know).

Then, on top of this library, we can imagine another one providing high-level widgets. But it seems harder to identify common widgets between different GUI.

In order to justify my idea, take a look at Qt. They started with a large library, merging low-level with widgets. And then, they split it in order to allow access to low-level features only.

I'm really interested in such project. So, if someone knows such project, or create such a project, drop me a line, please.

Regards,