Bazaar and Visual Studio

[Chris Hecker]

This is just my personal experience in my industry (video games), I have 
no actual data of programmers at large.  The good and senior people 
disable the integration and alt-tab so they have fine grained control, 
while the junior people complain they can't check their twitter from 
inside VS.

<rant>
I do think many programmers use completely wrong weights when evaluating 
polish features versus core features, which is why Visual Studio has 
moveable menu bars and takes 10gb to install but can't display more than 
4 memory windows at the same time or set hardware read breakpoints.
</rant>

Making friends,
Chris

:)


On 2010/09/14 10:20, Guy Gascoigne-Piggford wrote:
> I'm not at all sure that I agree with you here.  We're mainly a java
> shop here and use bzr all of the time.  When we gathered new devs to
> work on a .NET project, they put up with bzr and Visual Studio for a
> couple of months hating it's lack of integration and the migrated back
> to svn.
>
> I'd say that you don't hear too many people complaining simply because
> they don't bother with bzr in the first place, they take a look at
> what it offers and decide that for Windows centric development (which
> generally means Visual Studio), there are simply better alternatives.
>
> Guy
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Chris Hecker<checker at d6.com>  wrote:
>>
>> I would much rather have the bzr team deal with core features (performance,
>> versioned copy, large binaries, partial checkouts, etc) than mess around
>> with VS plugins.  Most serious developers I know turn off the VS integration
>> of p4 et al. anyway, and it's even less important for vcs's that don't lock
>> files like p4 does.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On 2010/09/14 07:56, Russel Winder wrote:
>>>
>>>   From what I can see Visual Studio supports Team Foundation Server and
>>> Subversion.  There are also actively developed plugins for Mercurial and
>>> Git.
>>>
>>> Bazaar however has a plugin that hasn't been touched for 168 weeks
>>> lp:bzr-visualstudio.
>>>
>>> If this is the state of Bazaar support in Visual Studio then I'm afraid
>>> Mercurial and Git are the only choices for a very significantly large
>>> proportion of the code developers in the world :-(
>>>
>>> Am I missing something?
>>
>>
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