I believe the `Cygnus Foundry', by Cygnus, is a UNIX-based IDE - not certain, though. But like most commercial UNIX software, it costs a pretty penny.
-c SEGV> I'm sitting here looking at my unused copy of Visual Studio 5.0 for > Windows, and thinking of the pathetic UNIX IDEs I have used in the past > two years. > > - SparcWorks on Solaris > - Softbench on HP-UX > - ladebug etc. on Digital UNIX > > Even XEmacs with Sparcworks integration doesn't do it for me. So > basically I use XEmacs to edit my source and make files, and the command > line to compile. I debug with whatever debugger is best for the platform > I am using that day. > > I understand that Visual Studio was created for the lowest common > denominator (that's a fact, not an opinion), and that UNIX programmers > are more comfortable with makefiles and command lines. But you have to > admit that Visual Studio, and Metrowerks Codewarrior, are great IDEs. > > My question is, "Why is there nothing similar on UNIX?" > > Perhaps I simply haven't stumbled over it yet. But the development tools > Sun, HP, etc. sell are the most hacked together things I've ever seen. > The crippled widgets don't even cut/paste properly, the layout is > atrocious, the GUI is nothing more than a debugging shell with renamed > buttons for its functions, etc. > > Even the free tools are not much better. Perhaps that's because they are > volunteer efforts. [But then why can't Sun do better?] Perhaps it's > because everyone's read "No Silver Bullet" and moved on to the > "essential" tasks of development, leaving the "accidental" tasks like > IDE behind. > > If I'm missing out on an excellent free/commercial IDE, please let me > know. If not, why can't one be built? Make a clone of Visual Studio, > fixing its annoyances at the same time. Make it fully graphical for the > neophyte developer, but unleash the power beneath for the scripting > guru. Build it out of standard components: GNU compilers, make, CVS, > etc. Use the GTK toolkit, eventually provide a visual GUI editor. > > Does this sound farfetched? Maybe, maybe not. I'm just trying to feel > this idea out. Is there a project like this going on now? If not, is > this an idea whose time has come? > > Please feel free to email me with any thoughts on this. Thank you for > your time. > > -- > SEGV > Homepage: http://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/ > Java Game Engine: http://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/YAGE/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]