bazaar for Matlab from Mathworks

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Pierre Larivière wrote:
> New question #100431 on Bazaar:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/100431
>
> Hi,
>
> We are a small group of matlab users and we search for a version control system, for our source code (text file). We are using matlab under windows platform. It is possible to use a source control system via the matlab editor, if this one is as said in the Matlab documentation: The source control interface on Windows works with any source control system that conforms to the Microsoft Common Source Control standard, Version 1.1
>
> Does Bazaar conforms to this standard ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Pierre
>

Bazaar does not provide an MSSCCI interface that will integrate directly
with Matlab (or Visual Studio). I'm sure it would be possible to
implement a wrapper to do so. However,

1) I haven't found any public documentation of the actual interface. I
would not be surprised if the only documentation was for-pay.

2) It doesn't appear to be a particularly good interface. Specifically:
http://www.ericsink.com/scm/scm_ide_integration.html

Mentions that it only really supports the "Checkout-Edit-Checkin"
paradigm, and not the "Edit-Merge-Commit" paradigm (feature branching,
etc.). And a lack of understanding of atomic transactions and network
connections.

You may want to take a closer look at "bzr-explorer" which comes bundled
with the Windows all-in-one installer (it is the icon put on the desktop
if you enable it). This still provides a GUI interface to version
control, but should be significantly more flexible than what MSSCCI
would provide.

John
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