[Mono-list] MONO and tooling...

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> Havoc Pennington recently had an article on gnomedesktop.org with the
> same conclusion, very nice but...:
> 
> hp writes "The Eclipse IDE hasn't gotten much attention in the GNOME  
> world but is a promising IDE with a GTK 2 interface. It's been making
> progress recently; they now have a decent C/C++ editor (the CDT) and the
> GTK 2 port works fairly well. See below for some screenshots and info on
> how to try out the Eclipse CDT.
> ..
> You also need the IBM Java packages, which are linked from eclipse.org.
> As Eclipse uses GTK 2 rather than AWT or Swing, it is reasonably close
> to working with gcj and classpath, which would make Eclipse 100% free
> software; but currently it requires the proprietary JDK.

Another option is to run Eclipse through Microsoft's JUMP.  Microsoft's
JUMP translates the Java source code into very nice C# source code (I am
very impressed by the output of JUMP).

Once we have the C# classes, we would probably have to do some manual
work to handle the SWT stuff (I have no idea of how it is done at all),
and then we could run the resulting code in Mono.  Ta da!

Miguel