Question about developing a GUI front end.

[TK Soh]

On Dec 6, 2007 4:44 AM, Jim Hewes <jhewes at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > 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!

The Win32 installer for TortoiseHg can be found here:

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=188871&package_id=243861