Re: Only MONO/WinForms is a way to go

Hello John

I see that pgEdit is for both Windows and Mac. Which toolkit did you
use to develop it and what are your primary development environment?

Ritesh

On 11/28/06, John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 28, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Tony Caduto wrote:
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> > They are serious applications, but they don't exactly have a lot of
> > forms and look how long Mozilla was in development.
>
> I think the various interfaces in something like Thunderbird shows it
> can do all the standard GUI stuff pretty well.
>
> > The reason there is no highly productive IDE for Linux/Mac with a
> > nice forms designer and robust data binding is because in the grand
> > scheme of things there are not a lot of
> > desktop users for anything other than win32.  Sure there are lots
> > of geeks that use Linux for their desktop, but not everyday users.
> > Everyday users are the ones companies etc want to make software for
> > and Linux etc just does not have those kind of users yet.
> > The mac does, but they are small  in number
> > CodeGear(Borland devtools group) will make a IDE for Mac or Linux
> > when they can make a viable return on investment.  They
> > experimented with Kylix, but it failed because they initially
> > priced it to high and many open source users will not pay even a
> > reasonable amount for a IDE.
> >
>
> There are highly productive IDEs for the Mac with all the goodies you
> mention. But few are cross-platform.
>
> Your statement about Windows desktop market share is correct, but it
> is not the relevant point. Many people are interested in cross-
> platform tools because they want to serve the Windows desktop market,
> but not have to give up Linux or OS X to do it.
>
>
>
>
> John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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