Bazaar Explorer prototype showing suggested Bazaar menu for IDEs

[Philippe Lhoste]

On 03/06/2009 09:02, Ben Finney wrote:
> You must mean something different by one or more of “technology”,
> “widespread”, or “take up” from what I would expect those terms to
> mean. Plenty of technologies without Windows GUI have long had
> widespread take-up: GNU+Linux, Apache, BIND, even Git.

It depends on what you call "widespread"... :-)
No need for a flamewar, but currently, for better or for worse, Windows remains the most 
used OS, and a first choice among new comers to computers.
The balance is probably more even among the population of programmers, but I feel that VCS 
have more uses than just managing code (hence the use of VCS TLA instead of SCM) and even 
some coders are newbies and yet could use VCS, but might be afraid of command line usage.

I am thinking of the population of Web designers, some languages liked because of the ease 
of use, like AutoHotkey (Windows only) or Processing, etc. Hey, even writers can use it 
(if not using software generating binary files...).

I try to advocate use of VCS (and particularly Bazaar, while trying to be agnostic, but I 
push the quality of the doc of bzr!) but when these users are more used to GUI tools and 
IDEs than command line, it might be hard to convince them of the simplicity of use...

So having a good GUI goes a long way toward wide-spead use of VCS.

Another positive factor could be translation, but that's another matter and lot of work!

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