On Thu, June 7, 2007 7:32 pm, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > On 6/7/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, June 7, 2007 3:44 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: >> > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:14:59PM -0700: >> >> I had a sig in an old sig file from an uber-developer to the effect >> of >> >> "I'd crawl across a hundred yards of visual-this and integrated-that >> to >> >> get to gcc and gdb on a console." >> > >> > A compiler, a console, and a decent editor. >> > >> >> I guess to some people Alt-F[2-6] _is_ an IDE. >> > >> > It worked for me, back in the day. >> > >> >> Let the record show that Stewart was not the uber-developer in question. >> But I thought of vi (and how much I hated it when I first was learning >> it, >> and how much I love it now) as I typed. >> >> Have I ever told this list how hard it is for me professionally not to >> puke when windoze developers whimper and whine when they're asked to use >> a >> code archiving/issue management tool that isn't actually integrated into >> their precious IDE and they have to actually _switch windows_? I >> remember >> how one supposed professional (blessedly out of my life now) wasted 20 >> minutes in a tool-search meeting calculating how much "creative" time he >> would waste if it took him 2.5 seconds to toggle between his IDE and the >> Perforce GUI. I wanted to say "WHAT ABOUT MY DAMNED TIME IN THIS >> MEETING, >> BOZO?" but of course, I am far too professional for that. Yes. And >> mature. >> Far too mature. > > So... what was the total time he would have wasted? :-) > > I used Perforce briefly and my jaw hit the ground when I found out > that Perforce couldn't even remember what repository and path a local > workspace came from. You had to tell it! Each time! Don't know if they > still have that problem. >
Command level? GUI? Which GUI? > Subversion knows where its files come from. Even CVS can do that. > I take it this is a deal-braeking requirement for you? > (Yay, let's start a source code control flame war! ;-) > > > -Chuck > Been there. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
