Admittedly it would probably be an insane amount of work to move
TortoiseSVN off of MFC, but with Microsoft continuing to offer a good free
C++ IDE in Visual C++ 2005 Express it would be cool if TortoiseSVN could
be built from all free software.
What if the TortoiseSVN GUI were moved to a free toolkit like QT or
wxWidgets? Given the code separation that already exists in TortoiseSVN
this could potentially make TortoiseSVN portable to Linux and OS X. Only
the shell extension code would have to be platform-specific and all of the
excellent TortoiseSVN dialogs and functionality in TortoiseProc.exe could
likely be made available on other platforms.
Stefan, I am not volunteering you to do all of this work, just wondering
if you have thought about it at all or were open to the idea if someone
else wanted to step up and experiment with it. Is MFC too embedded in the
code to make it worth even considering?
Thanks
Mark
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