Re: [RFC] git-gui USer's Survey 2007 (was: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?)

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > 
> >> Actually I might revisit this XUL concept using an HTTP server and 
> >> AJAX.  I could actually link the damn HTTP server against libgit.a 
> >> (Junio will hate me).  If the server dies XUL can notice it and 
> >> simply restart it.
> > 
> > But if you can restart the HTTP server via XUL, you can start other 
> > git programs directly.
> > 
> > What you'd have to do is (urgh) write a wrapper via start_command() 
> > which would recognize that the second process die()d.
> > 
> > All in all, I think if you want to switch from Tcl/Tk to another 
> > language for git-gui, for the sake of attracting more developers, it 
> > might be wiser to go Java than XUL.
> 
> Wont we get with the same problems as egit/jgit?

My idea was not to get the same problems, but to use jgit.  After all, 
Shawn made a point of separating the both.

> ----
> This is proposed set of questions for git-gui mini survey...
> 
> 1. What language and what toolkit should git-gui be written in?
>    (single choice)
> 
>    a. Tcl/Tk    (current implementation)
>    b. C++/Qt
>    c. C/GTK+
>    d. Python    (native)
>    e. Python/PyQt
>    f. Python/PyGTK
>    g. Ruby
>    h. Java/Swing
>    i. Java/SWT
>    j. XUL+JavaScript+CSS/XULRunner
>    k. other
>    l. no opinion

I am pretty comfortable with a), but rather than go [b-gi-l] I would 
prefer h).

> 3. Do you contribute to git-gui?
>    Yes/No

Yes (sort of; not half as much as I'd like to.)

> 4. If git-gui would use other language/toolkit, would you contribute?
>    Yes/No

Yes, as long as it is a language/toolkit that is available on all 
platforms that I (have to) work.  That pretty much excludes C# and Python 
as a language.

> 5. What languages and what toolkits you are proficient with (to send
>    patches)? 
>    (multiple choice)
> 
>    a. Tcl/Tk    (current implementation)
>    b. C++/Qt
>    c. C/GTK+
>    d. Python    (native)
>    e. Python/PyQt
>    f. Python/PyGTK
>    g. Ruby
>    h. Java/Swing
>    i. Java/SWT
>    j. XUL+JavaScript+CSS/XULRunner
>    k. other
>    l. N/A

[abchk]

> 6. What other?

Personally, I am quite comfortable with the existing implementation, and 
IMHO people dismiss contributing to git-gui too easily; Tcl is not all 
that complicated, and it is not hard at all to change/imitate existing 
code.

Ciao,
Dscho