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

[Bela Babik]

My 2c: Qt's licensing is too complicated to be usable in production environment.

I have tried hgk with active tcl and didn't work. What is the
preferred way to use it ?

teki

On 2/6/07, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
> 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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