# Re: VCS comparison table

- From: Charles Duffy \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:44 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7291686
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7291303/t/2.md

```text
Sean wrote:
> Hmm.. It's pretty easy to test out Git ideas too.  People do it all
> the time, and without plugins.  Junio maintains several such trees
> for instance.  Dunno.. I just think plugs _sounds_ good to developers
> without much real benefit to users over regular ole source code.

Example time!

There's a plugin for Bzr which adds support for Cygwin-compatible symlink support on Windows. (IIRC, this involves monkey-patching some of the Python standard library bits).

Now, this is something which is *proposed* as a feature to be merged into upstream bzr, and it may happen at some point. That said, when I have a Windows-using coworker who wants to check out a repository that has symlinks in it (with his win32-native, no-cygwin-required bzr upstream binary), I don't need to tell him to go download and build bzr from a third party; instead, I just need to tell him to run a single command to check out the plugin in question into the bzr plugins folder.

From an end-user convenience perspective, it's a pretty significant win.
```