Re: WG: New project request

Stefan Papp wrote:
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> Our development team came up with an idea. Microsoft Sharepoint has
> become our main platform to share documents and other media. A lot of
> people need the features to trigger workflows in Sharepoint and so on.
> For this reason, we moved a lot of documents from Subversion to Sharepoint.
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> On the other hand, the people are used to TortoiseSVN and would like to
> continue to use TortoiseSVN. We came up with the idea to create a
> Tortoise for MOSS. The functionality is basically the same, the client
> just communicates with MOSS instead of Subversion.
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> So my question is: Is something like a TortoiseMOSS in your development
> pipe? And if not, is it possible to use the word “Tortoise”.
> TortoiseMOSS would sound like an appropriate name for that product.

We currently have no plans to make TortoiseSVN work with MOSS. You're
free to implement such a client yourself.
As for the "Tortoise" name, we've discussed this some time ago with the
people from TortoiseCVS (those are the guys which 'invented' the name,
TortoiseCVS is older than TortoiseSVN). The only rules we'd like for
projects to follow to be 'allowed' to use the name "Tortoise":

* project must be open source
* project must be on Windows (because 'Tortoise' clients are all written
for the windows explorer - if someone would suddenly use that name for
some Linux project, that would confuse many users)

Also note that we now have a shared overlay handler:
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/trunk/src/TortoiseOverlays
with the binaries available from
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/TortoiseOverlays/
(login with usernam as 'guest', leave password empty).

Stefan

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