Re: [viewvc-dev] Re: svn commit: r2409 - trunk/bin/standalone.py

On 07/15/2010 06:47 PM, Peter Funk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> [email protected] wrote:
> …
>> Remove the somewhat broken, largely irrelevant GUI mode from
>> standalone.py.  Great idea when the tool was simpler, but it just
>> hasn't kept up with the complexity of the app.
> 
> IMHO the GUI mode was a good way to get people started without
> too much hassle.  But I must admit that I never tried it with SVN (or 
> to be more precise: with anything else instead of CVS).

Oh, I think the GUI was a great idea for its time.  But it only really
allows for playing with a very, very small number of options relative to the
scope of ViewVC's overall configuration set, and not even the particularly
interesting ones.  And since its introduction, a whole bunch of stuff has
been added/changed/removed, causing some of the options to not work at all
(the template selection).  The fault lies entirely on me for not keeping
this thing up-to-date, but when nobody else is stepping up to help maintain
the code, sometimes hard calls have to be made.  (And if someone *was*
stepping up to offer to maintain and improve the GUI mode, I'd certainly not
block its reintroduction.)

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C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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