Comments on: We need lots more of this

By: diegoe

diegoe — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:23:04 +0000

@Vadim
the same relevance of package managers instead of installing .tar.gz files all around your linux

@Gian
? it works here

@boteeka
perhaps not an IDE of their own, I would rather prefer integrating with each platform most popular IDE, we are not chasing libraries and platform, we are chasing developers that only care about developing. If they never are able to easily test our stuff they will never use it.

By: boteeka

boteeka — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:32:10 +0000

I don’t see this as an example of how good is to use VisualStudio for opensource development. Instead it shows what Linux and other opensource platforms lack: a good AND _widespread_ IDE in which I can load up _any_ opensource project just by downloading the tar.gz or checking out the SVN repo or whatever, and going to the Open menu and selecting the project’s folder or a projectfile and be done with it. At this point I should only click build and ta-da: the project is built. Automatically installing build dependencies and whatnot.

An IDE like this would really propel software development on Linux.

By: Gian Mario Tagliaretti

Gian Mario Tagliaretti — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:32:11 +0000

Uhm… your links are broken

By: Vadim

Vadim — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:03:31 +0000

I’m afraid I don’t see the relevance of this.

By: Ciprian Mustiata

Ciprian Mustiata — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:22:38 +0000

I really believe that is a smart thing that Lluis did. It means that anyone can send a fix in their IDE. Also, think on this: I want to develop on C on a GNOME application, where should I start for? Give me 10 steps to be ready to work.

First Bonjour/zeroconf was implemented in proprietary XCode of Apple, what does it mean? We benefit till the date of support on Linux and we adapted it. The same is about webkit. Continuing the story, the FreePascal project was at start implemented in Borland Pascal/Delphi. If you can contribute to OpenSource, use the BEST TOOL.

You may argue: Visual Studio is not the best tool, Eclipse,, whatever is. The idea is that some persons using their skillset can be more productive in a platform (let’s say Windows) and a technology (let’s name it .NET and Visual Studio).

By: Anders

Anders — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:05:55 +0000

Now if someone would write similar steps for compiling a generic GTK+ application in Visual Studio…