Re: [RFC] git-gui USer's Survey 2007 (was: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?)

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On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 23:48:12 +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Jan Hudec wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:32:10 +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > > > 4. If git-gui would use other language/toolkit, would you 
> > > > contribute?
> > > >    Yes/No
> > > 
> > > Yes, as long as it is a language/toolkit that is available on all 
> > > platforms that I (have to) work.  That pretty much excludes C# and 
> > > Python as a language.
> > 
> > Out of interest, where does neither of those two work and Qt and tcl/tk do?
> > Mono and python both seem to be quite portable.
> 
> IRIX (an ancient one).
> 
> Besides, Mono is darned slow.  Even Tcl/Tk is faster.

On the shootout Mono seems to be an order of magnitude faster in most tests.
But maybe they are performing very poorly on some strange platform where they
don't have JIT.

> Furthermore, my complaint was not about a platform where neither C# nor 
> Python work.  That is irrelevant.  If you have one platform where only one 
> works, and another platform where only the other works, you cannot have a 
> single program for both platforms.  Right?

Right.

I probably shouldn't be surprised that mono does not work on older unices,
but I am a bit surprised python does not.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>

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