Bazaar and Eclipse

[Nicholas Allen]

Russel Winder wrote:
> Currently we have BzrEclipse and QBzrEclipse.
>
> BzrEclipse does all the icon annotation and context menus, but the
> pop-up dialogues could use some work.
>
> QBzrEclipse doesn't seem to follow the Eclipse guidelines,
What exactly do you mean by this? If by this you mean that it should
appear in the Team menu you are right. The reason I do not do this is
because Eclipse's Team features are designed for centralized systems and
not distributed ones and require user configuration to work. I want
QBzrEclipse to just work with Bazaar branches without any need for
configuration. If you have a Bazaar branch in Eclipse then the Bazaar
commands should work with no further configuration. In BzrEclipse it was
necessary (not sure if this is still the case) to share your branch
through the team menu which makes almost no sense as far as a
distributed version control system is concerned.
>  adds an entry
> in the top-level menu, 
Bazaar works more on a branch as a whole and not individual files so I
think a top level menu entry is more appropriate than a file based
context menu. I still intend to add a file based context menu but
haven't had the time to do so yet...
> doesn't do icon annotation or context menus, 
This is planned for the future.
> but
> does have pop-up dialogues that are wonderfully consistent with Bazaar
> Explorer :-)  -- though they don't actually look entirely consistent
> with Eclipse.
>   
That's the point. Actually on Windows and Mac they should look pretty
consistent due to Qt's fairly good emulation of the host's GUI.