[ANN] hgview - a pygtk-based clone of hgk

[Steve Borho]

On Friday 02 February 2007 04:21:05 am Ludovic Aubry wrote:
<snip conversation about pygtk portability>
> As for a portable toolkit there tcl/tk and hgk is already working fine.
> I started hgview because viewing large repositories was too slow with
> hgk.
>
> I won't do a QT or wxPython version, but so far I haven't put more than
> 5 days worth of work in hgview so anybody can redo its own version with
> it's favorite toolkit.

Over the xmas break I looked into what it would take to replicate hgk 
functionality using PyQt.  I figured I could hack something up to the current 
state of hgview in a few days, but decided against it.

For one, hgk already works under windows even if it does require you to 
install Tcl/Tk.  And my PyQt version of it would not be substantially better 
in the short-medium term.

For two, I think it would be a better use of resources to pool together with a 
few others and try to port qgit to mercurial.

that's just my $0.02

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