Bazaar and Visual Studio

Chris Hecker checker at d6.com
Tue Sep 14 18:45:15 BST 2010


Of course, my example of twitter below is actually a bad example, 
because of course you can get an arbitrary RSS feed onto your start page 
in VS.  Very useful core programming feature.

Chris


On 2010/09/14 10:38, Chris Hecker wrote:
>
> 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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