Re: FFmpeg considering GIT

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 22:13:44 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:

Linus Torvalds writes:

quoted

Finally, it realy _should_ check that the first 7 characters of the commit 
log (the ones it ignores by just asking for substring 7..) are actually 
the exact characters "commit ", but I'll blame my lack of comfort with the 
language again.

I have thought about rewriting it in a different language, but I
haven't found anything that really appeals.  I don't want to go to
C/GTK or C/Qt since that would make it hard to port to Windows and

C/Gtk would be perfectly portable. As would C++/Gtk, Python/Gtk and Perl/Gtk.
C++/Qt4 would be perfectly portable as well, so choose whichever you find
easier to work with. For C/C++ they are on par, for Python/Perl/Ruby I think
Gtk has better bindings.

MacOS AFAIK.  Python/Tk would be a possibility, but I have never
learnt python and I'm actually not all that comfortable with having to
do things the object-oriented way.

I would actually recommend against Python/Tk, because (tried it) py2exe does
not work seem to work with it, so you couldn't wrap it to easy to install
binary for windows folks. I did not try Python/Gtk, but I expect you might
have better luck with it (it's the Tcl/Tk interpreter that causes problems).

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec [off-list ref]