Re:[ 1/2OT] CVS gui client for X - Results of the poll
Re:[ 1/2OT] CVS gui client for X - Results of the poll
- Subject: Re:[ 1/2OT] CVS gui client for X - Results of the poll
- From: Simon Stapleton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:46:52 +0100
<email@hidden> wrote:
Hi again all,
Thanks to everybody who sent their opinion. That's greatly appreciated
!
From the answers I get I can tell you there are two distinctive camps
:
- the ones that use the Terminal and don't care about a GUI
- the ones that use a GUI, and use the Terminal when the GUI fails to
do what they want.
The first camp doesn't want a GUI. That's their choice, and I
understand it fully.
For the second camp, most of them are unhappy with what exists. 95% of
the more happy of them use CVL.
There's a reason for that ;-) Actually, I think you'll find there's a
third camp - those people happily using the PBX stuff (with or without
SSHPassKey) and who don't actually need anything else (except maybe a
'CVS import' plugin for PBX).
Oh, and the fourth camp. Them as what read the previous messages,
scratched their heads, and said "CVS?"
On X, none of the Carbon ports (MacCVS, MacCVS Pro, MacCVS Client) did
the job for me. I had very very bad experiences with some (being able
to checkin into CVS and not being able to checkout even with the
command line).
Been there, done that. Sucky, sucky, sucky.
CVL is the best IMHO. But it crashes a lot...
Never seen it crash. Not ever. And it's _always_ running on my box.
That's not to say it has no bugs - I'm sure it does - I'd imagine
Sen:te would be happy to have crash reports, and as it's open source
you could always build your own with debugging info and debug (or even
fix) it yourself ;-)
I personnaly dislike the browser,
Fair enough. I like it. And, as said before, it's open source.
and the commands are too simple sometimes (if you want to do
an update with several options, the Terminal is the only choice).
I'd say this was a good thing. If you know enough CVS to know you want
to do something heavy-duty, you can always go to the terminal. Why
clutter the interface? Most (98%+, IMHO) of the time CVL does
everything you need.
I had a look at the CVL sources, but I personnaly think it was easier
for me to start developping a new client than modifying CVL's source.
I doubt that.
You might find that stupid, but I personnaly feel more comfortable with
the code I've written than with someone else's code.
I don't see it as stupid. Mildly wasteful, perhaps, but not stupid.
Variety is always a good thing, even when most of the variety is
rubbish. Good luck. I'll <ahem> "check it out" <ahem> when it does
ssh.
Simon
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