Wess, it was really a nice reading.

Just to remember us on the roots of this subthread: the question was whether the Perforce=B4s support for external merge tool (an lack of own tool) is an advnatage or disadvantage.

When writing your reply, did you realise what the core of your advices for Francois and me is?

Francois shall search the web for TCL, download it , learn it, adopt scripts, installal and configure it on his workstations. This labour cost may well double the price for his perforce installation - but who cares? I shall not feel this is a problem for me there is apparently no TCL/TK for OS2. Main thing is, I had good time doing good web search these days. Last but not least, me and maybe Francois too shall quit my/our jobs and move to better development environments.

I have accepted this extract from your mail as well-done try to bring a bit of humour to this forum. Hope you can see my mail with same eyes.

Juraj sal at keba.co.at

---------- ~ Von: Wes Peters ~ An: PERFORCE-USER Distribution List ~ Betreff: AW: Visual Merge ~ Datum: Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 1997 06:30 ~ ~ Sal Salak Juraj writes: ~ > Wess Peters wrote to Francois: ~ > ~ > ~ You seem to fail to understand the UNIX philosophy here: supporting an ~ > ~ external tool is a *strength*, not a weakness. ~ > ~ > Well, fine for unix. But Francois asked about windows. ~ ~ Tcl/Tk is available for Windows from several sources, perhaps the ~ Perforce tool could easily be adapted to run on Windows as well. I ~ don't know if Tcl/Tk exists for OS/2. ~ ~ > We may like or dislike windows philosophy, ~ > or guess wheter there is one at all, ~ > but unlike in unix the external visual merge tools are ~ > not so easy to find.. ~ ~ Yet another reason to refuse to work for people stupid enough to make ~ you write software using constrained development environments. Take Ed ~ Yourdon's advice: vote with your feet. ~ ~ > Philosphy is not tempting hungry folks, ~ > and Francois seems to be hungry for a windows merge tool ~ > just as I am for an os/2 merge tool. ~ ~ Perhaps philosophy cannot soothe their hunger, but it's amazing what you ~ can accomplish with a good web search these days. ~ ~ -- ~ "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" ~ ~ Wes Peters Softweyr LLC ~ http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr at xmission.com ~=20