bzr-gtk vs. QBzr

[Joseph Wakeling]

Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> May I ask you to describe your thoughts, informal comparison between bzr-gtk and QBzr.
> I'm one of QBzr developers and I'd like to understand differences better.
> Last release of bzr-gtk was 6 months ago, although it's still in more-or-less
> active development. I guess bzr-gtk is stable and mature tool then.

I haven't used bzr-gtk for ages, simply because of QBzr's excellent
side-by-side diff (though I don't use much more than qdiff and qlog).

This is a fantastic tool, particularly if (like me) you use bzr to track
text documents (LaTeX, HTML, ...) as well as code.  With that in mind,
one new feature I'd like to see would be the option to wrap the text in
the side-by-side diff windows -- wrapped text is much easier to compare
side-by-side but currently the only way to get it is from 'hard' word
wrap in the text file being diff'd.

I do note one problem with qbzr -- the developers have not kept the PPA
up to date (there is no Jaunty version and the PPA versions for Hardy
and Intrepid are several releases behind the latest source release).
The qbzr version in the official Jaunty repositories is even further
behind the PPA ... :-(

So, from my point of view one of the most important things the qbzr
developers can do is to put more effort into having up-to-date PPA and
distro packages.  I don't really understand why qbzr is not uploaded to
the main bzr PPA -- it has for some time been powerful and well-crafted
enough to be considered part of the 'core family' of bzr tools along
with bzrtools, bzr-gtk and bzr-svn.

Best wishes,

    -- Joe