Bazaar Explorer prototype showing suggested Bazaar menu for IDEs

[Ben Finney]

Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho at GMX.net> writes:

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

Perhaps. That's not what Russell claimed, though: he explicitly excluded
the possibility of any take-up of a technology without a Windows GUI.
That seems trivially false, so I'm wondering what Russell actually
meant.

Talden <talden at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > Russel Winder <russel.winder at concertant.com> writes:
> >> I am of the firm opinion (backed by anecdotal evidence only though)
> >> that a GUI interface is necessary for there to be any widespread
> >> take up of a technology. Also, sadly, there has to be a Windows GUI
> >> for there to be any take up at all.
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Nope sorry I have to agree with some of what Russell is saying.

Why “nope”, do you have any disagreement with the points I raised?
What disagreement?

And why “sorry”?

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