[p4] P4V vs P4Win

[Ken Williams]

I don't think anyone's mentioned a rather large complaint of mine about P4V:
it uses different terminology for all its operations than all the other
perforce tools, and than the perforce documentation & Wingerd book.  For
instance, you choose "get latest revision" instead of "sync to head", and
"check out" instead of "open for edit".  I find it maddening to switch back
& forth.

I don't much care which set of terminology is "better", but for heaven's
sake it should be consistent across the platform.  Perforce has claimed for
at least a couple years that they're moving to the terminology that's used
in P4V across all their products, but it doesn't actually seem to be
happening.

It almost makes me wonder if the P4V team is a rogue limb of the company
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome) with a mind of its own.

I certainly do appreciate the additional functionality P4V has in certain
situations, but I join the chorus of usability complainers.

 -Ken


On 4/16/07 9:24 AM, "Armstrong, Geoff (Computronix)"
<Armstrong.Geoff at syncrude.com> wrote:

> P4Win has a number of features I use all the time (that I don't see in
> P4V).
> 
> In P4Win I often right-click on a folder in the depot and select
> "Explorer" or "Command Prompt" from the context menu.  Does P4V have
> equivalent functionality?
> 
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