Bazaar and Java IDEs (was Bazaar and Visual Studio)

[Max Bowsher]

On 15/09/10 01:50, Philip Peitsch wrote:
> Just to clarify a little, lack of IDE integration isn't quite the same
> as lack of GUI.  Bazaar actually has rather good guis for commits,
> updates, diffs etc., and integration options for external merge/diff
> tools.  All the gui variants of bazaar are prefixed with q... for
> example, qcommit, qupdate, qdiff, qlog etc. (bzr help commands will show
> all available commands)

Indeed, QBzr rocks :-)

> I am interested as to what IDE integrations are required by your devs
> that isn't offered by bzr explorer, or has been proven to be more
> difficult on the command line?  The cry for IDE integration seems to
> happen quite frequently, but in my experience, unless the IDE
> integration focuses on the right thing, it can be quite useless.

I personally am quite a light user of IDE integration (I habitually
commit from the command line). However, the things that I really miss
the most are in-IDE indication of locally modified files. Tie-in to move
files in bzr when they are moved by the IDE refactoring is also a must.
I suspect at least some of my co-workers would demand in-IDE diff and
commit as a minimum.

> Also, you might be interested in the Eclipse Bazaar plugin:
> http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/BzrEclipse

I tried it - but it seemed incredibly unpolished, and the project seems
to be completely dormant.

qbzr-eclipse is actually a lot better, though then you have to accept
that it's not really an IDE integration, but a launcher for external
tools - that's quite a hard sell, when your audience is an office full
of developers used to Eclipse's tight CVS and SVN integrations.

Max.

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