On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Kurt Granroth <kurt.tortois...@granroth.com> wrote: > On 12/3/09 2:32 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> However; it seems to me that you're essentially abandoning Windows support >> with this decision, and THAT I care about deeply just at the moment. >> Losing support for Windows Explorer would uncheck the "Windows >> integration" checkbox in most Windows shops, I believe, eliminating >> Mercurial from consideration. Having to run "some other browser" is not >> an acceptable alternative to most windows users, especially management. > > There are, of course, different ways of looking at that. We're rolling > out Mercurial in our development department and TortoiseHg is absolutely > *critical* to this. First-rate Windows support was in the "essential" > list of criteria. TortoiseHg provides that for Mercurial in a way that > git and darcs can't come close to touching. > > The big hurdle that we've had to overcome, though, is the fact that > Tortoise is a shell extension. This is a shop coming from extensive use > of WinCVS and other all-in-one tools. The reactions we got to a context > menu ranged from outright loathing to more of a "oh well, if that's all > there is then it'll have to do". NOBODY was a fan of it. > > The 0.9 release has really gone a long way towards alleviating a lot of > those concerns. One look at the new Repository Explorer converted a few > of the ones on the fence. > > Having an integrated file browser would bring even more into the fold. > Also, it would allow us to push it for our Linux developers a bit more, > as well (Nautilus use is rare). > > I'm not saying that wanting Explorer integration is less ideal or > anything... just that it's not everybody's cup of tea.
This has been a great thread, thanks for all the feedback. I've certainly learned quite a bit about how TortoiseHg is being used. The working plan going forward is to add a file browser to hgtk, perhaps to the Repository Explorer as the idea has some intriguing possibilities. The installer (probably starting in 0.10) will make the overlays and context menus separately configurable (in 0.9 you could have both or neither). If the overlays are not installed, we will not start the taskbar app and we will not install TortoiseOverlays. Sune has gamely volunteered to keep the overlays working at their current functionality level going forward, which guarantees they will not be going away. I would not object to someone simplifying the overlays to only mark revisioned folders, so long as this was run-time selectable. Cheers, -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list Tortoisehg-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
