From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] yap: Yet Another (Git) Porcelain Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 21:01:26 +0200 Message-ID: <200809062101.28672.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <20080906150723.GA31540@dervierte> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Steven Walter" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Sep 06 21:02:55 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 1Kc33R-0000yj-WB for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:02:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751896AbYIFTBf (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2008 15:01:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752055AbYIFTBf (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2008 15:01:35 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:20858 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751532AbYIFTBe (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2008 15:01:34 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so998786fgg.17 for ; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:01:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=2WfPTifRfIguhb+vKrGEiEYhJpc7526soDSNQIgQNms=; b=xGk8gnkci7W6gIAl6gQYOfC+as4dPNQ7c0oMQPPS4mybCbOHTW+77eeHfgRy59yrSO 55Ux8boLGoWKsnM6DxSfeONr5liCjMvHpTfd11hJcGdt5q+cy0TAAi6RcL7U4p62C+Yn wkwKW6Y3moBEjiI6JfyAecEwLLWkglb50oilQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=OSSQqQKAMwHFAjSy+3+GyeSaFnUYjIEDG/rmeDrAkLK7o521NPYuDg8rrHFuUMH3NA RSjVnsuVmNH3NFkkyGit58PfyviwWzc8v2X5SL8hDRfQp2FJCOLIoau8S9vJju95L26x jKEseLq9+Fo7SnWmZqYr/wWrB/ERIEpNwbXsM= Received: by 10.86.97.7 with SMTP id u7mr9869477fgb.29.1220727691617; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.11? ( [83.8.234.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e20sm2475095fga.1.2008.09.06.12.01.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:01:30 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: [Back on git mailing list] On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Steven Walter wrote: > On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > > First, a question: how your yap porcelain differs from efforts of > > EasyGit (eg) and Pyrite? > > In the case of EasyGit, it differs in that yap's interface does not > have the requirement of being fully backwards-compatible with core > git. Dropping that requirement gave me more freedom to simplify and > clean-up the interface. I can understand this. EasyGit is more about making git self documenting than anything more, from what I understand. > To my knowledge, Pyrite does not support plugins. As far as I know Pyrite is one-man work. Why not to join efforts, bringing those two projects together? Both share the same language, Python. > > And a request: could you add (short) information about your work to > > Git Wiki: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools, > > of course in the "Version Control Interface layers" section? > > Done. Thanks. By the way, please take into account http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yap_(disambiguation) Most commonly known YAP is I think Yet Another Previewer, which is the name of the DVI viewer included on the widely used MiKTeX TeX distribution for the Microsoft Windows platform, YAGP, or YA(G)P, is I think free of such conotations. -- Jakub Narebski Poland