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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 28, 2007, 23:48 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711282345500.27959@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071128232523.GE9174@efreet.light.src>

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Jan Hudec wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:32:10 +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > > 4. If git-gui would use other language/toolkit, would you 
> > > contribute?
> > >    Yes/No
> > 
> > Yes, as long as it is a language/toolkit that is available on all 
> > platforms that I (have to) work.  That pretty much excludes C# and 
> > Python as a language.
> 
> Out of interest, where does neither of those two work and Qt and tcl/tk do?
> Mono and python both seem to be quite portable.

IRIX (an ancient one).

Besides, Mono is darned slow.  Even Tcl/Tk is faster.

Furthermore, my complaint was not about a platform where neither C# nor Python work. That is irrelevant. If you have one platform where only one works, and another platform where only the other works, you cannot have a single program for both platforms. Right?

Hth, Dscho