Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: GIT

Hi,

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, david@lang.hm wrote:

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

I'd rather have more file types supported that are useful for the 
average user, than a generic XML merge driver that is useful to only a 
handful of people.

we are both after the same thing,

Apparently not...

the most use to the average user.

you look at SVG, ODF word, ODF spreadsheet, OOXML, etc as completely 
seperate things that should have support developed seperatly.

No.  I look at SVG, ODF text, ODF spreadsheet, etc as things with 
completely different user interfaces.

And likewise, the merge _helper_, the very thing the user will get to see, 
must have different user interfaces.

And I see much more potential for this project to fail in those different 
user interfaces than something as _trivial_ (in relation) as XML merging.

Ciao,
Dscho