[darcs-devel] darcs patch: Remove GUI code and stuff to build it.

[Salvatore Insalaco]

2007/7/15, Eric Kow <eric.kow at loria.fr>:
> When Juliusz first suggested this, we were perhaps more optimistic about being
> able to keep working on the gui code.  More than one year later, it has become
> clearer that (i) nobody really has time to work on it (ii) nobody seems to be
> using it anyway (iii) attention would be be better spent working on an eventual
> libdarcs.  Besides, have you even looked at this thing? Ugggleee.

I agree. We should focus working on the "core" of darcs.
Making a GUI for a versioning system is not an easy task, making a
cross-platform one is even harder... I think that we should leave to
other projects, maybe OS-specific (e.g. TortoiseDarcs) this task.
Making a "libdarcs" would surely help.

By the way, this is my first mail to darcs-devel. I've adopted darcs
on the company were I work a couple of months ago, and while I've got
a good knowledge of darcs issues in the current version (I've already
hit the infamous exponential-conflict-handle problem a couple of
times), its benefits are crucial in my context.

So... I'm jumping in. I don't think it's currently a very good time
for "casual hacking" in darcs, because all the new (still
undocumented) stuff about hashed repositories and new conflict
resolution, but count me as part of the community :).

Salvatore