From: david@lang.hm Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:50:24 GMT Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: GIT Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, david@lang.hm wrote: > >> 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. I absolutly agree with this. the UI and merge _helper_ tools for these different file formats are completely different. > 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. and the key thing that I am saying is that a properly done XML merge may eliminate the need to do _any_ development of a merge helper tool. so rather than focusing on what the merge helper tool is going to be and what the UI for that is, I am focusing on the potential to eliminate any need to hae a specific helper tool by making it so that the marked up files can be manipulated with the existing tools for that file type. David Lang