On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 6:38:40 PM UTC+5:30, Gordon Levi wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > > >On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> Code is always the last resort for arbitrary complexity > >> Lets keep it the last resort. > >> > >> If the bottom-line is that python's GUI-builders are so deep into suxland > >> that they are best avoided in place of hand-written code, thats fine (by > >> me). > >> > >> Lets please not make a virtue of a lack > > > >Once someone figures out a way to usefully merge independent changes > >(you know, the way source control tools do every single day for code), > >maybe I'll consider that. Until then, the last resort is also my first > >response. > > Why can't whatever is generated by a GUI form designer be stored in > source control along with all the other project files? The only > restriction would be that everyone who wants to change the UI would > have to use the same form designer.
Glade generates XML (last I saw) XML is text... kinda... but not quite eg XML is sometimes/somewhere space sensitive, sometimes not This can generate messy diffs Best I can see, these are not exactly trivial nor quite impossible to solve problems -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
