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

[Erik Dasque]

Can we petition them to do so ?

Erik

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 21:48 -0400, Andrew Satori wrote:
> Not to be a killjoy, but...
> 
> Quite frankly, Eclipse blows as an IDE on the Mac because it's a Java  
> app.  The only decent .NET IDE is VS.NET.  MonoDevelop is excellent,  
> in it's native GTK environment, but it's not a Mac app either, and it  
> shows.  Further exacerbating the problem is that the Mac Mono  
> community is TINY compared to the Linux & Windows world, so we truly  
> are 3rd class citizens.  If we want a robust IDE, we better build it  
> ourselves and target the Mac leveraging Mac technologies.  Until we  
> do that, the IDE situation will continue to Suck.
> 
> Eclipse is not the answer, nor is MD, and while I think Xcode could  
> be, Apple still hasn't released the SDK for use to integrate into it  
> properly.
> 
> Andy
> 
> On Oct 26, 2005, at 4:41 PM, Dominik Pich wrote:
> 
> >  I also only know of the Improve plugin... unfortunately.
> > IMHO eclipse could be a excellent IDE for Mono :D Instead effort  
> > goes to another app... I aleady asked about this when I first  
> > discovered Mono but have not gotten a satisfying answer...
> >
> > On Oct 26, 2005, at 10:16 PM, Timothy Mowlem wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> People are discussing a lot about MonoDevelop and its so slow  
> >> progress to MacOSX. Perhaps resources would be better spent  
> >> creating a project to develop a C#/.NET Eclipse plugin to make  
> >> C#/.NET/Mono a first class citizen along side the JDT (Java  
> >> Development Toolkit) on Eclipse.
> >>
> >> Eclipse is already an excellent Java IDE and a very large amount  
> >> of industry support is now behind it. There is already one C#  
> >> plugin that i am aware of (the Improve plugin) but that does not  
> >> appear to be under active development.
> >>
> >> The existing IDE framework and plugin system gives you a lot  
> >> before you have started so surely a C# aware editor and build  
> >> system would not be hard to create? Also surely a debugger could  
> >> be incorporated into the system as well.
> >>
> >> The only problem I can see would be the use of the SWT toolkit in  
> >> Eclipse when you want to do .NET GUI development. Perhaps someone  
> >> has ideas on this topic?
> >>
> >> Does anyone know if such a C#/.NEt project is underway for Eclipse?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Tim Mowlem
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