[Mono-winforms-list] fully portable IDE with GTK

[Ron Braithwaite]

On Nov 20, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Jackson Harper wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 22:36 -0600, Adam Hill wrote:
>> The irony of this thread is mind boggling. :)
>
> The irony of your post is that it was easier to rewrite sharpdevelop
> using gtk# then to get it working with our winforms (because of  
> pinvokes
> and windowsisms) ;-)
>
>> Asking about GTK portability/GTK GUI Builder and then using
>> MonoDevelop as an example of a GTK GUI IDE and it does not run on
>> cross-platform.
>
> Monodevelop does not work on windows because its designed to be a  
> first
> class IDE on Linux, not a cross platform IDE. So it takes  
> advantages of
> things that don't exist on windows, and does things in a more linuxy
> way.  Instead of taking the lowest common denominator of two operating
> systems (one of which already has plenty of IDEs) they decided to  
> focus
> on Linux/Unix.

And the irony of your post is that some of us are primarily  
interested in the cross-platform aspects of mono and not writing  
monodevelop to be portable seems a little ... something.

I'm using Mac OS X and I would love to be able to use monodevelop.

Oh well. Maybe Apple will tell us about where the hooks are in Xcode  
so we could develop on that for mono. Until then, I'll just use  
jEdit, I suppose.

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