Bazaar and Visual Studio

[John Barstow]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk> wrote:
> From what I can see Visual Studio supports Team Foundation Server and
> Subversion.  There are also actively developed plugins for Mercurial and
> Git.
>
> Bazaar however has a plugin that hasn't been touched for 168 weeks
> lp:bzr-visualstudio.
>

Well, the gating factor here is access to a copy of Visual Studio, the
free (Express) version of which does not allow for plugin development.
I have an even worse issue with lp:bzr-tfs as I don't a licensed copy
of TFS to test my plugin against (basically I use it very
conservatively against my employer's production server, which rules
out most test scenarios).

As far as actual code involved, one could probably get a bit of a
running head start by looking at the Mercurial plugin as they support
a similar range of operations against a similar model in the same
language. I'd have a look but I have my hands full right now finding
enough time to move bzr-tfs ahead to something really usable - I could
however spend some time testing work someone else has done as I do
have access to VS2010.

I'd think the bzr-eclipse thing is a little more inexcusable, in the
sense that Eclipse is OSS, so anyone could download it and start
hacking on the plugin. This is something I might be able to justify as
my current project uses Eclipse as the IDE, however it's a bit more of
a learning curve as I know nothing about Eclipse (I'm the build
engineer, so I don't actually have to touch the IDE at all).