Google Summer of Code

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Apr 17 23:29:40 UTC 2006


On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:59:02AM +1000, Michael Smith wrote:
> Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> >- Ideas for cool stuff you'd like to see people hack on.
> 
> An all singing all dancing GUI front end for Mercurial and other SCMs. I 
> know that somebody is working on this but I don't know what the status 
> is. Cross platform with a UI for X at least and possibly windows and MacOS.

I'm personally not terribly interested in cross-platform UIs. People
much prefer native toolkits and all the cross-platform ones make most
or all platforms second-class.

So I'd rather see a nice UI well-adapted to a particular platform with
an easily replaced front-end.

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