Steve, On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 14:04 -0400, Steve Appling wrote: [ . . . ] > While we originally started development of this as an IDEA plugin, I think it > would actually be very useful just as a GUI for Gradle. I'm not aware of > another build tool that has something like this, but Git has something > similar > (git gui). I would love to be able to run gradle --interactive to launch > this. > Again, Mike did this with the extra launcher script just as a quick way to > solve some issues so that we could get some early feedback - that is not > intended to be how it will work in the end.
No problem. It is invariably more important to get stuff out for people to tinker with than to try and get something right before issuing it. Even if some comments are about the wrong stuff, getting the comments flowing creates the energy that fosters real progress. I think Bazaar/Mercurial/Git are bad analogues since they are VCSs and the use cases have very different aims. The real analogues are SCons, Waf, etc. I don't think any of these are anything other than commandline. I don't know of GUIs for these but there is an Eclipse plugin for SCons I think. The question is what benefit does a GUI bring over command line. On Windows this is probably more of an issue as the concept of command line seems to be anathema -- though I see PowerShell is making moves towards popularity. Having said this I think Windows in anathema an use only Ubuntu, Mac OS X and Solaris ;-) It might be worth trying to do the GUI design based on a HCI UI design analysis. -- Russel. ============================================================ Dr Russel Winder Partner Concertant LLP t: +44 20 7585 2200, +44 20 7193 9203 41 Buckmaster Road, f: +44 8700 516 084 voip: sip:[email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK. m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected]
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