On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 08:15 AM, Steven Fisher wrote:
Well, on MAC, Windows ans Linux I use PRC-TOOLS with EMACS/XEmacs and sometimes I copy from MAC to Windows to Linux and back again a few times a week and I have to procisely ZERO changes to ANYTHING. It's great. I'd recommend it for the same reasons I hate people getting 'tied' into the Micro$oft route. If you want to mail me off-list to talk about cross platform portability then I'm your man.Sean Charles wrote:Yes, I use GDB with PRCTools on 10.1.4 and it works extremely well. Coupled with the legendary EMACS and life just couldn't be easier. Apart from winning the lottery.I really need something that works cross platform. How are the Windows counterparts? Is there any kind of step-by-step process for converting?
For converting from CW to a standard makefile, I'm sure there are tools / advice for the asking, I don't use CW so I couldn't say.
I'll miss CodeWarrior. Despite some flaws, it was a pretty good tool. But I suppose this gives us incentive to create a better IDE over time. It couldn't be done when Metrowerks dropped Pascal due to the state of the compilers, but I'm pretty sure Palm will have no such problem. :)<bitching session>
Ben Combee may not remember my name but many years ago I bought CW for Java 6.0 for a BIIIIIIIIIIG project and when we were in there, relying on it daily, one day with no warning it screwed us big time, and the registry and all the project settings just went AWOL. I was not happy with the support. Why should I download megabytes of patches and fixes for something that, IMO, just wasn't ready for commercial use? In honesty, we had some problemes with VCafe as well, it purported to be able to migrate to any new JDK but it was a massive PITA with downloading this and that and a kitchen sink.
The truth was, it (VCAFE) just didn't do what it said on the box, out of the box. I've developed software for nearly twenty years and used lots of things to get the job done...I no longer believe things printed on boxes or in magazine reviews!
IMHO I have always thought that CW is like a duck, all calm control and serenity on the surface but paddling like buggery underneath. We ditched CW and went with Forte for Java, a magnificent FREE tool that never ever went wrong. I used the Windows version which, not having seen a MAC at that time, I can realise why it's so hard to get used to because of the non-standard windows model i.e. it don't look like Windoze and it don't play like Windoze. I can't remember how many times I had to keep resetting the settings and this and that. Not a time I care to remember at all.
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Anyway, I don't intend to start a flame ware about anything, that's just what happened to me but I read a lot of mails on this forum about people having trouble with the tools, both CW and PRC, instead of the job in hand. You live you learn. Hopefully. On both counts!
Sean.
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