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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    RE: cvs front end
From:       "Glen Parker" <glenebob () nwlink ! com>
Date:       1999-05-31 20:31:37
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> I heavily  disagree. konqueror is a filemanager, and shouldn't be
> bloated with the advanced functionality that is needed for a CVS
> frontend. Note not everybody likes Xemacs (although I love it :) ).

cvs is just a file manager too ;-)

Probably could be handled just fine through corba, just like ftp and
whatever else.  I don't see that increasing bloat beyond what you already
need for corba support and a corba aware cvs client - you obviously wouldn't
have the cvs client running unless you were using it.

> although I don't know how tkCVS works, but I think the gui will heavily
> differ from what konqueror has.

I haven't seen it either, but WinCVS that I run on NT has an interface that
*could* fit into a file manager UI ok.  It's just a tree on the left, a file
listing on the right, plus a log window that maybe would have to be handled
differently.

But I think it may not work so well when you have no local repository
already.  But if you change into a directory with a CVS subdir, you might
get a choice of how to deal with that directory, either natively or through
cvs.  It obviously needs some thought, but it sounds workable to me.

Glen

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