Re: Remove lily-git?

[Jean Abou Samra]

Hi,

Thank you all for your input.

Le 04/06/2020 à 13:54, Urs Liska a écrit :
> Am Donnerstag, den 04.06.2020, 13:36 +0200 schrieb Jean Abou Samra:
> > I do agree with you that Git can be a bit of a trick to learn (at least,
> > there is a long path before you fully master it). What if right now we
> > just added a link to some Git graphical client like
> > https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/?
> SmartGit is a great Git client, but it is proprietary, so we can't link
> to it (even provided they have a free (lowercase 'f') license for non-
> commercial work).
> Unfortunately I haven't yet found a Free GUI tool that made me feel
> comfortable, so I've always got back to it.

Damned! You're right. Then let's not link to anything at all (yet).

> > It doesn't remove the complexity of Git (obviously that's quite more
> > involved than lily-git, the target not being the same), but at the
> > very least, you don't need to bother with a command-line interface.
> >
> > lily-git is not going to be usable in an immediate future.
> > Anyway, if I had to write something, I would do it in Python as per
> > the abovementioned issue (now that recent versions of Python ship
> > with tkinter). And as we're still trying to figure out how exactly
> > we are going to work with GitLab, starting a new tool right now
> > doesn't look like a good idea. So, what I would propose at this point
> > is to drop lily-git.tcl, as it doesn't provide a value neither for a
> > user these days, nor for the people that could develop a new tool in
> > Python in the future; then, depending on how things go on, and if we feel
> > the need for it, write lily-git.py or whatever. Maybe we could open an
> > issue to track that. Makes sense?
> To me, yes. But I don't think that is too relevant here.
>
> Best
> Urs

Based on the replies, I created

https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/123

(pipelines failed, I still need to investigate), and

https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/5997

Regards,
Jean Abou Samra