I tried to use WinCVS but gave up and use CVS from the command line.
The thing I could never figure out is how to configure it to know about
more then one cvs repository. Its docs don't help and the GUI helps less.
Now I'm sure it can be done, but life too short. On the command line this
is trivia to do.
You must design a user model that is implemented in the GUI as Greg said.
BArry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Marculescu [mailto:paul@p16.pub.ro]
> Sent: 02 May 2002 23:08
> To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: visual client
>
>
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>
> Kevin Galligan wrote:
> >
> > More on WinCVS (it just keeps going and going). WinCVS, to me anyway, is
> > like emacs. There are a million things it can do, and you only ever use
> > three of them.
>
> It's exactly the number of things you can do with the command line
> client. Anyway, I find WinCVS's usability level satisfactory: I want to
> tag a working copy I click on tag, I can easily see the history tree
> (including branches) for a file, I can query an update, I can select 2
> revisions in this tree and diff them etc. Yes, there are some problems,
> but I think it is easy to use.
>
> >
> > I've been looking into doing a subversion client for a little while but
> > haven't really done anything yet. I have a couple questions about wxwindows
> > actually. I looked at the web site quickly. I fail to see how you could
> > add more complicated or custom controls if you ever needed them. Then again
> > maybe you wouldn't need them. Also, hows the performance?
>
> I don't know about custom controls in wxwindows. You should post the
> question on wx-users@lists.wxwindows.org to get more accurate
> information. Anyway, you should make some compromises if you want the
> application to be portable. I used wxwindows (and also subversion) only
> on windows, where I know they are using SDK as the core implementation
> and on platforms where some controls are missing they emulate them.
>
> >
> > -Kevin
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Peter Davis" <peter@pdavis.cx>
> > To: <dev@subversion.tigris.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 4:22 PM
> > Subject: Re: visual client
> >
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> > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 12:54, Greg Stein wrote:
> > > IMO, WinCVS has *TOO* many options. It simply exposes the CVS commands and
> > > switches without any regard to how the user wants to actually interact
> > with
> > > their files/dirs. It is truly an awful piece of software.
> >
> > If I were making this program, I'd look at WinCVS to get the list of things
> > the program needs to do, but nothing more. WinCVS is *way* too complicated,
> > and for me it's simpler just to use the command line. WinCVS is also the
> > number one reason why we ended up using Visual Source Safe at my last job --
> >
> > I suggested CVS (before Subversion was around, of course), but my bosses
> > wanted a GUI and WinCVS sucked too much. Like you said, it is a truly
> > awsome^H^H^H^Hful piece of software :)
> >
> > - --
> > Peter Davis
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