[RFC] Workingstyle of different VCS systems

[Matthew Woehlke]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 12.04.07 23:11:16, Andras Mantia wrote:
>> On Thursday 12 April 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>> Anyway since the ideal is to be able to write an abstract GUI using
>>> these interfaces, we still need it in the interface. :-)
>> Do we want such a GUI? I mean, will the plugins only do backend stuff 
>> and not plug their actions into the user interface and instead we have 
>> another plugin for the GUI? It doesn't really make sense because of the 
>> differences between the VCS variants.
> 
> No, what we want is some widgets that can be used by the VCS plugins and
> thus share some code.

Exactly. :-)

> CVS and SVN can share log, diff and merge widgets
> at least and I think perforce can do with those too.

We probably need to hammer out some specifics on exactly how log() will 
work (unless it just returns a list of strings), otherwise yes, perforce 
should be able to implement all of these.

-- 
Matthew
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