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.

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