I may get shot down in flames here but, what was wrong with Syncmods?
Several things. For starters it does lots of things, much more poorly than Subversion, and is (at best) fidgety about being cross-platform. Worth the hassle? hell yes it is.
That certainly depends on whether you're doing it recreationally or professionally. In the first case, no worries. In the later, you probably just want something that works out of the box. Like every other competing product.But surely this is a problem with a somewhat limited impact? Eventually the 3rd party IDE developers will get their act together and support updates via Subversion transparently.