Question about developing a GUI front end.

[John Rice]

Well - if you install NetBeans IDE you get everything you need including 
a Mercurial plugin that integrates with the IDE (I know Eclipse have 
something similar). So you just need to have hg on your system and you 
are good to go on Windows, Mac, Linux, OpenSolaris ....

NetBeans supports Java, C/C++, Ajax, Ruby and Javascript development. 
But if you are tied into Visual Studio well that's another issue then :(

JR
http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/MercurialVersionControl
http://www.netbeans.org/

Jim Hewes 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!
>
> Jim
>
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