Question about developing a GUI front end.

[Jim Hewes]

> Before you go too far you might want to take a look at some other GUI 
> front ends. Particularly Tortise-HG.
>
> IMHO it would be better to work on consolidating and improving the 
> existing GUI front ends rather than starting a new one.

I don't necessarily have the time so spend on GUI stuff, but I'm at least
asking because I'm interested, and who knows. I am using Windows, by the
way. I do use TortoiseCVS and it's good. But I think it's unfortunate for
Tortoise that Vista no longer allows you to define custom columns in
Explorer. This means you can't easily see revision numbers or status, and
can't sort your directory according to status.(And another thing I wonder:
what if I wanted to use both CVS and Mercurial because I still want to get
to some CVS repository... can you have TortoiseCVS and TortoiseHg going at
the same time?)

I guess Linux users are used to it, but coming from the Windows side, one
thing that can be annoying about all these tools is how you need to install
all sorts of other stuff just to get them to work. One tool requires a
python interpreter, the next needs php, the next needs gtk, another needs
Cygwin, another requires an earlier version of a python interpreter than
what you already have, sheesh. Give me an EXE, please. Even if I have the
patience to go through all that, I'm trying to sell this to other people
where I work who don't. They may not be too receptive to switching SCC when
you tell them they need to install and configure lots of interpreters on
their computer. Oops, I guess it's not good to go on a rant on your second
post, lol!

Jim