Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: GIT

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 20, 2009, 09:35 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903201033310.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0903191948050.4560@asgard.lang.hm>

Hi,

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, david@lang.hm wrote:

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> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > I'd rather have more file types supported that are useful for the 
> > average user, than a generic XML merge driver that is useful to only a 
> > handful of people.
> 
> we are both after the same thing,

Apparently not...

> the most use to the average user.
> 
> you look at SVG, ODF word, ODF spreadsheet, OOXML, etc as completely 
> seperate things that should have support developed seperatly.

No. I look at SVG, ODF text, ODF spreadsheet, etc as things with completely different user interfaces.

And likewise, the merge _helper_, the very thing the user will get to see, must have different user interfaces.

And I see much more potential for this project to fail in those different user interfaces than something as _trivial_ (in relation) as XML merging.

Ciao, Dscho