Bazaar Explorer prototype showing suggested Bazaar menu for IDEs

[Marius Kruger]

2009/6/6 Russel Winder <russel.winder at concertant.com>
...

> Command lines are more usable than GUIs for some users, for some tasks,
> in some contexts.  However the majority of situations mean that GUIs are
> more usable.

...

> Basically people now expect GUIs -- even programmers, many of whom
> cannot work unless they are plugged in to an IDE.
>
> So to gain real traction, Bazaar needs a good GUI.  We have lots of bits
> that work well and do the things that are needed.  What is missing is
> the coordinating GUI.  Olive-GTK didn't quite cut it. Eclipse, NetBeans
> and IntelliJ IDEA have special needs.  Bazaar Explorer may do the
> business.
> ...
> So to get to the main market you need a GUI tool that fits comfortably
> in that context.  So integration with Windows, Explorer, Eclipse is
> essential.  It's all about numbers and percentages.
>
> But it isn't an absolute, things have to measured against the
> competition.  In this case Git and Mercurial.  If those systems play the
> Windows/GUI game they will beat Bazaar no matter how good Bazaar is.
>

This is what happened at my company. They prefer svn
because it has better tools support: tortoiseSVN, visual studio, netbeans,
gforge, continuous integration (cruise-control/hudson), maven releases, etc.
The other day I wanted to know how to do something with svn from the
svn-pushing 'experts', and none of them even had the commandline svn
installed.

People who make decisions in medium sized companies need to choose tools
which will make all of the developers productive, including the
commandline-impared ones.
Gui's are more descoverable than commandline tools.

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