[Lazarus] Development of other revision control

[Sven Barth]

On 11.04.2012 20:54, Dawson wrote:
> Is there a reason not to make an API, as opposed to a plugin for
> Lazarus? I guess in some ways the plugin system is nice since it doesn't
> force anything on anyone, but on the other hand it seems odd to me that
> a developer wouldn't want access to a "source code management" system
> built into their IDE.

It's not exactly plugin vs. API, but more "making a plugin which will 
provide a SCM API". Not everyone wants to use the IDE for version 
control (I personally prefer to use TortoiseSVN or the respective 
commandline tools for SVN and Git), so by providing the API as a plugin 
you aren't enforcing anything on other users. And that the plugin system 
should be powerful enough for a SCM API is shown by LazSVNPkg. If 
certain functions you need are missing then I'm sure one of the IDE 
developers will implement them for you. ;)

Regards,
Sven