Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git

Post by Gormo » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 6:50 PM UTC

rz2k wrote: post #45

darklajid wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So.. You're either running Vista (and I really doubt that, because the upgrade to 7 is more or less straight forward, you'd have done it a long time ago) or the long dead, end of life, unsupported, zombie OS called Windows XP. Which is fine. But shouldn't you _expect_ being left out by now? XP came out in 2001 (hazy memory, quoting Wikipedia). OS X (10.0, Cheetah) came out the same year. What's the minimum requiremen…

To be fair, SP3 was released in mid 2008, 7 wasn't released until late 2009, and XP had a greater usage share than 7 (and Vista combined) until early 2011. It is a sensible decision to only target Windows 7+, and the only reason to stick with XP would be specific compatibility with older programs, but it is a stretch to dismiss XP as a product that came out a decade ago when it still has an enormous market share.

Post by drawkbox » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 7:40 PM UTC

far_far_away wrote: post #15

bitcartel wrote: post #13

The original SourceTree for Mac is a native Cocoa app. If this Windows version has been written in C# it could potentially be ported to Linux with Mono and GTK#/Qyoto. Perhaps the future is one single cross-platform app?

I hope not. I like SourceTree the way it is (on OS X) and every cross platform UI toolkit I know produces apps that don't feel native. IMHO Bitbucket/Atlassian is doing it the right way: Native on the client side.

Post by drawkbox » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 7:44 PM UTC

pnathan wrote: post #28

I have ST on my Mac. It's a pretty beefy machine - i7, 4gb of ram. And it runs like a lazy dog in a hot August day in North Carolina, i.e., very slowly. I really wish it'd be sped up and I sincerely hope that the Windows version is massively faster.

Post by Surio » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 7:58 PM UTC

mrweasel wrote: post #66

Git AND MERCURIAL client. There's not a single decent Mercurial client on Windows. EasyMercurial is better than nothing, but not by much. We a few .Net projects, (we mainly do Python), some of the projects we haven't even bothered moving from Subversion, because of the lack of good Windows Mercurial clients. Having SourceTree on both Mac and Windows is huge to us. EDIT: Just realized that they didn't include Mercuria…

Post by Dirlewanger » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 8:02 PM UTC

rz2k wrote: post #45

darklajid wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So.. You're either running Vista (and I really doubt that, because the upgrade to 7 is more or less straight forward, you'd have done it a long time ago) or the long dead, end of life, unsupported, zombie OS called Windows XP. Which is fine. But shouldn't you _expect_ being left out by now? XP came out in 2001 (hazy memory, quoting Wikipedia). OS X (10.0, Cheetah) came out the same year. What's the minimum requiremen…

To be fair, SP3 was released in mid 2008, 7 wasn't released until late 2009, and XP had a greater usage share than 7 (and Vista combined) until early 2011. It is a sensible decision to only target Windows 7+, and the only reason to stick with XP would be specific compatibility with older programs, but it is a stretch to dismiss XP as a product that came out a decade ago when it still has an enormous market share.