Hi Xan,
sorry for the delay.
abstract: I agree with you.
* [Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:07:02AM +0200] Xan:
Anyway, even if not strictly related, I would like to point to the
graphical user interface seen in the camp video. Am I wrong or there
where some plans for adopting/integrating it sometime ago ? I guess they
don't still stand, but imo a graphical interface could be useful for the
'lonesome' developer.
If I am right it also displayed the patches dependencies, a feature that
seems very useful to me.
I was focus in web UI because it's for *everyone*. GUI is always
rectricted to a environment: you have to install GTK libs, or QT libs,
or .... with web, you just have to got simple browser....
You're right, a webUI is a simpler approach... well, apart when it
isn't: if you had to install an http server, a DB, and so on, I would
prefer a good old GUI for tasks that do not require the interface to be
publicly accessible. Anyway Ganesh already ruled out this scenario.
I was mentioning the GUI only because I assume it is already available
and IIRC someone proposed integrating/adopting it some time ago. And to
be honest I don't even know if it was a full featured GUI. I vaguely
remember the video and recall it showed the dependency tree, but don't
know if it had other features apart from that.
But I will be very glad with your application.
Probably I worded it wrong. Unfortunately I don't have the skills for
this.
I think that the graphical (web or GUI) is a critical point for darcs
adoption. It could be best versioning system in the world theorically
but if you don't bring a graphical interface (all cli), then you have a
minority of users.... this is my point of view. I'm just an sporadical
user.
Well, I guess it depends on personal preferences and usage. While I
consider it a nice addition, I'm not so excited about it as I was, i.e.,
with regard to the rebase command that saved my day just a week or two
ago (God bless you, Ganesh). Also, I would like a dependency tree graph
but apart from this I'm not sure I would use the GUI much.
But again I agree that it's a nice-to-have and that darcs could benefit
from it.
Ciao,
Gian Piero.
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