On GUIs for Mercurial

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Feb 1 12:11:38 CST 2006


Just so you know, I've basically decided that there will be no
official Mercurial GUI. There are several reasons for this:

- I don't use GUI tools
- There's no obvious choice of toolkits
- Using a portable toolkit rather than a native one means a worse GUI
  experience for everyone
- An official GUI tool would discourage the creation of new tools and
  bind Mercurial to a GUI platform
- I want to share GUI tools between hg, git, bzr, mt, etc.
- Competition is good

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