That's what I thought. I justed wanted to make sure I wasnt overlooking something obvious. I will continue using vim and vow to quit being so lazy.
Thanks all, shawn On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:09, Dominik Fretz wrote: > Shawn Vose wrote: > > > Has any one had any luck getting the Sharp Develop IDE to compile on a > > linux box? I couldnt find any documentation on their site but if someone > > has a link to something that may help that would be great. > > > > I normally use vi but sometimes it is nice to have code completion. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Shawn > > > Hi > > First: I'm not one of the #D Devlopers, but I can give some infos about > this thopic: > > Curretnly, you won't be able to run #D on linux since it heavaly depends > on System.Windows.Forms. > > Since the #D developpers thought about a linux version, the main #D > developper Mike Krueger startet a port of the Java gui library SWT (used > and developed in Eclipse). > This was the beginning of the SharpWT project (you will find some notes > of this on the list archives of this list). > SWT was designed to use native widgets on each platform and it exists on > diffrent platforms including Win32 and Linux/GTK. The Port of the common > and Win32 part was done by Mike and Pedro Abelleira Seco and I started > to port the GTK part. > > The Idea from the #D crew was to port #D over to SharpWT and have it run > on Linux and Windows (and probbably on other platforms). > > The current state is this (AFAIK): > - Win32 port of SharpWT mostly done > - GTK port has a good base, but here is still work to do, some widgets > arent here in the GTK part and some things generats errors and crashes > > There is a branch in the #D source tree that has some things portetd to > SharpWT. But this is far from complete. AFAIK didn't work the #D crew > currently on the port to SharpWT because they going to 1.0. But > afterwars, I think, there will be more effort on porting it to SharpWT. > > In the meantime, I try to work on the GTK part of SharpWT. to have it as > close to the Win32 functionality as possible. > > For more informations, please have a look at the sd-mono-poirt > mailinglist (@ximian) and read through the archive of it. > > Regards > Dominik > > > - > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
