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 > 2015 NE 37th Ave > Portland, OR 97212 USA > 503-267-3250 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-winforms-list maillist - Mono-winforms-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list _______________________________________________ Mono-winforms-list maillist - Mono-winforms-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list