Greetings, all,
I've been thinking alot lately about Version 7 of Hackystat. There has
been discussion about moving to subversion for this major release. This
morning I was asking myself if subversion was worth the trouble of
switching. After all, version 7 is going to create enough confusion as it
is.
This afternoon, it occurred to me that (a) subversion supports
directory/file renaming and movement, and (b) that means that an
appropriate Eclipse plugin for svn could result in direct support for
refactoring within the configuration management system.
If such a plugin exists and is robust, that would constitute the 'killer
app' IMHO and I would be on board to switch over for Version 7.0.
So, I looked around and found subclipse <http://subclipse.tigris.org/>,
which indeed advertises itself as having direct support for integrating
eclipse refactoring with subversion. Woo hoo.
Then I started reading emails saying the plugin is not stable, that it
doesn't work in linux, that installation is very brittle, etc. etc.
So, some questions:
(a) Has anyone had experience with the subclipse plugin? If so, how much,
and on what platforms? Is it stable? Easy to use? etc?
(b) Has anyone used the refactoring integration of subclipse? If so, did it
work? was it easy? etc.
(c) are there other plugins out there we should be considering?
Anything else we should know before jumping off the cliff?
Cheers,
Philip
