[Mono-osx] Use of Eclipse as a .NET IDE

[Miguel de Icaza]

> Btw all;  I'm 99% certain miguel means X-Develop here not X-Code.

Oops.  You are right.

Miguel
> -kangaroo
> 
> On 3-Nov-05, at 4:31 PM, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> >     Some people have mentioned that SlickEdit works on the Mac.  There
> > is also X-Code which is a commercial IDE that supports Mono  
> > natively and
> > works on OSX, uses SWT so it has *some* resemblance to the  
> > underlying OS
> > and I believe its based to some extent on Eclipse.
> >
> >     The Mono team does not have the resources to build an IDE, so we
> > have not devoted much attention to that problem ourselves.   
> > Although we
> > do contribute to MonoDevelop.
> >
> >     We contribute to MonoDevelop for several reasons:
> >
> > 	* It is a good way of testing the Mono runtime *itself* as it is
> > 	  a large application and it exercises various parts of the
> > 	  runtime that would otherwise would not be tested.
> >
> > 	  ie, we dogfood Mono and Gtk# with it.
> >
> > 	* A C#-based IDE is able to consume all of our class libraries
> > 	  without any effort, this means that it is easy to integrate
> > 	  the Mono debugger (done in the past, currently broken as its
> > 	  changing its API), Stetic or other Gtk# based components
> > 	  easily.
> >
> >      To me dogfooding is a recent good enough to support  
> > MonoDevelop as
> > a gigantic QA test for the runtime and all of our libraries.  But if
> > folks wants to use X-Code, Eclipse or SlickEdit that is of course fine
> > with us.  We just do not have enough resources to have a strong enough
> > opinion.
> >
> > Miguel.
> >
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