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

Andrew Satori dru at druware.com
Fri Oct 28 22:03:18 EDT 2005


I certainly have been.  I pester anyone that I can find on the dev  
team about once a month for the SDK :-)

Andy

On Oct 28, 2005, at 9:53 AM, Erik Dasque wrote:

> 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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