From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jose =?iso-8859-1?q?Mar=EDa_G=F3mez_Vergara?= Subject: Re: Are C++ contributions welcome? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:11:01 +0200 Organization: JmGV Research Message-ID: <200806201811.01444.josemaria@jmgv.org> References: <4c88165dd0077363a30b4f98fed16c2f@localhost> <46a038f90806200859r520d0593q367d6625a240595a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Martin Langhoff" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 20 18:12:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K9jDe-00057E-4R for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:12:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752542AbYFTQLM (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:11:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754623AbYFTQLM (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:11:12 -0400 Received: from laura.centrologic.com ([212.34.136.105]:32813 "EHLO laura.centrologic.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752341AbYFTQLL (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:11:11 -0400 Received: from [84.76.236.140] (helo=neura.local) by laura.centrologic.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.54) id 1K9jCY-0007KW-Ts; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:11:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: <46a038f90806200859r520d0593q367d6625a240595a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Good that is a really good news because I really like doing front-ends and GUI applications. I will take care of this. On Friday 20 June 2008 17:59:09 Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Johannes Schindelin > > wrote: > >> I don't feel comfortable programing in C and I prefer C++ only because I > >> have more experience using this one. May I contribute to this project in > >> that language?. > > if you have UI/Win32 experience, a good friendly UI for newcomers to > GIT is something we are lacking. Johannes got started with git-cheetah > a while ago, and there is a similar project called TortoiseHg, either > might be a good starting point. > > As Jakub noted, C++ is a reasonably good fit for UIs, and we are > lacking those. We have a fantastic team of people doing C work on the > core of git, and noone on GUIs. So I'd say yes, C++/UI help is > something we need 'round here :-) > > cheers, > > > > m