On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 06:17 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > As the CEO of a famous operating system company once said, > "I have four words for you: developers, Developers, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!" > ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE ) > > Attracting more developers (not of wine, but of their own apps) to Linux > by getting their IDEs running on Wine would be great for wine, > as developers are more likely than the average user to file bug reports > or (dare we hope) fix bugs. So it would be good to get popular IDEs > working on Wine. > > Newer Microsoft IDEs like Visual Studio 2005 are a challenge, > Visual Studio 2005 express requires BITS (which is a SoC project in itself, > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5054) > > Some IDEs run fairly well if you install DCOM98, in which case you > would write conformance tests exposing the problems in our COM > implementation so Rob can fix them :-) > Older IDEs like Visual C++ 6 and Visual Basic 6 are in this category. cf. > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4931 > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5321 > > And then there's Eclipse, Delphi, Turbo C++, IntelliJ, Powerbuilder, Access, > Visual Fox Pro, and many others. There are also specialized IDEs like > AVRStudio (an IDE for embedded developers) which people want to run in Wine > (see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5312). > > Picking one or two of these and focusing on getting its problems > solved might be very useful. > - Dan >
Another IDE I can throw out there is MPLAB. It is a major showstopper for anything doing PIC Development. It is freely down-loadable here: http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en019469&part=SW007002 Stephan