I'm crosposting this to all tortoises I know of - the Windows Overlay
problem is relevant to all.
(*git-cheetah *is a tortoise in disguise)
On 19/04/2008, TK Soh <teekaysoh_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Tom Widmer <tom.widmer_at_googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > [copy of
> http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev/doc/developers/tortoise-strategy.txt]
> >
> > TK Soh wrote:
> >
> > I'd say the document details the best strategy for TortoiseHG too,
> > simply by replacing BZR with HG and Bazaar with Mercurial.
> >
> > Except I propose this change:
> >
> > Share the exact same (eventually C++) shell overlay extension for Bzr
> > and HG, so that if you have TortoiseHG and TortoiseBZR installed, they
> > actually are sharing a single COM dll, which will presumably pick up
> > from the Windows registry the names of the RPC exe programs it needs to
> > communicate with (one Bazaar one and one Mercurial one). There's a
> minor
> > versioning issue here, but this can be solved by versioning the
> > capabilities of the RPC server so newer versions of the shell overlay
> > extension don't ask unanswerable questions of older RPC servers.
> >
> > If that's no go, at the very least the C++ code can be shared in its
> > entirety, and just built differently for HG and BZR.
>
>
> Stefan Küng of TSVN has proposed a solution to get around the slot
> limit of Overlay handlers among the Tortoise clients:
>
>
> http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/TortoiseOverlays/version-1.0.1/Documentation.txt
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Eventually TortoiseHg, and probably all other Tortoise clients too,
> will adopt this approach.
>
> I think that the TortoiseOverlay component could evolve into a separate
project, were some of the features mentioned in the bzr tortoise strategy
(space-efficient DLL architecture, separate tortoise-processes) would fit
nicely, and benefit all tortoises.
I would like to contribute to such a project, but I would rather watch a
dedicated mailing list.
The amount of mailing lists posts I'm trying to follow has reached my
processing capabilities, so adding two more (TSVN and TBZR) with a fairly
high amount of posts that are not relevant to me is not too attractive.
Anybody feel like setting up such a project?
Regards,
Peer
Received on 2008-04-19 10:01:30 CEST