Open-Sourcing HomeSite sure sounds good to me, I really don't like Eclipse, and I'm not wild about Dreamweaver, either. Of course, I've been using CF5 Studio since, well, CF5 first came out, so no reason why I can't use it for another 7 years.
Pete On 8/6/07, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/6/07, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even before the Adobe buyout, MM said they were dropping support for HS+ > > in favor of DW. > > Bear in mind that HomeSite is written in Delphi so it cannot be made > cross-platform and with DW (and most all of Adobe's desktop tools) > being in C++ and CF/Flex being in Java, why would they want to > maintain one product written in Delphi? > > That said, a couple of pieces of HomeSite did get repurposed into the > Eclipse plugins: the query builder and, because of that, the > application wizards are Windows-only. Hopefully those will get > rewritten in Java at some point and become cross-platform and then the > Delphi codebase can die a quiet death :) > > Perhaps Adobe might be persuaded to Open Source HomeSite? (sans the > RDS library, I'm sure, which would need to remain in binary-only > format) > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:285535 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
