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Re: GUI for subversion?

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-06-06 00:08:11 CEST

William Uther <will+@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
> I don't think that is going to work. It hasn't in the past and I don't see
> this paragraph as changing anything. How about some other suggestions:

Hmmm. Am I unclear on the size of the problem here?

I understand that Subversion on Win32 has problems from time to time.
In one release, there was even a showstopper regarding checkouts, but
that was an exception, afaik.

In general, the Win32 build works, and is functional enough to
participate in Subversion development.

Is that statement true or false? If the Win32 build is constantly in
a state of utter brokenness, then I agree there's a problem and would
feel personally like devoting time to solving it. But if it's just
got buglets, which can be quickly found and fixed by people running
Win32 anyway, then that's just part of the normal process.

Those problems that Jay described (or those he described in enough
detail for me to recognize them) were all of this second sort. They
are not crises, nor reasons to throw up one's hands and say
"Subversion just doesn't care about Win32.". They're just small-scale
hair to deal with, not real obstructions to development, unless I
missed something big...

Either way, Jay's mail is long on complaints, and short on concrete
suggestions for what to do about them. It's just not a helpful kind
of mail to send -- yours was much better both in tone and analysis of
the problem, for example.

(One data point I'm using is that other Win32 developers are not
expressing Jay's level of annoyance; certainly they're not complaining
about trivial, easy-to-handle stuff like forgetting to update the .dsp
files, gack! :-) )

-K

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