The meaning of Integrated

I've been so irritated at the gui designer in 6.1/6.5m1 that I decided
to download all the sources and try building this beast.
So, I find that its in a mercurial repository. Fine, I remember reading
that netbeans came with mercurial support, which I've never used before.
I go to the versioning menu and lo-and-behold there it is......but it
doesn't work at all...

Noooo....First I have to find and download mercurial itself, but it
requires python, so now I'm downloading and installing that.
Maybe eventually I'll be able to actually use mercurial....Maybe not, I
could always make a mistake a waste 2-3 hours here.


Now then, let's discuss the meaning of integrated shall we? Before there
were IDE's there were command line tools. And lots of them. And every
developer had to find and  install the tools (we all) needed themselves.
As time went on this became too complex, a stumbling block. And into
this void was born the 'integrated development environment' - and they
did indeed help. Usually, I could buy one of them (yes we purchased them
long ago) and it included all the 'tools', hid them behind the curtain,
and let me get on with my job - which is supposed to be application
developer as opposed to tool configurator. And life was good.

But now the world is a much more complex place, and the need for an
'integrated' development environment has never been greater.
So, for those who have forgotten the meaning of 'integrated' let me
remind you of something.

You are NOT integrated when the user has to download and install
additional software for the before the 'IDE' can integrate with it?
Got it? - I'm not interested in excuses here either...."we couldn't
because of......" save it please.
You lose the right to call yourself integrated, when you are not.....got
point?
You are NOT integrated when you've added a gui for tools that aren't
installed....

If you can't install the whole--thing-tool-module-whatever-here - YOU
ARE NOT INTEGRATED!

Thanks for listening,
Kurt