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

[Jackson Harper]

On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 18:58 -0800, Ron Braithwaite wrote:
> 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.

There is nothing ironic about that. Thats just reality. Monodevelop is
not meant to be a cross platform IDE. Note the first line on their
website:

"MonoDevelop is a free GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and
other .NET languages."


> 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.
> 
> Ron Braithwaite
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