> There are more of us out here. ;) Oh, I know!
> automake is your friend. No thanks :-) > My Makefiles are probably 50 lines In my main development tools, makefiles are zero lines. Much nicer. > They slow things down, when you have to reach for the mouse and click > around to navigate through it. Well, you don't **have** to reach for the mouse, and actually there are studies that show that they're quicker for many people. Modern IDEs have a lot of productivity features you don't find in primitive text editors. Some of us prefer not to have to learn loads of keyboard shortcuts too :-) > Everyone has their own way of doing things though. I'd like mine to be cygwin-free. > You'll probably want to pick through the list to see if there > are components there that you may need now, or later on. That's my point - there aren't any. I don't want cygwin at all. I don't want to use the command line at all. When I have to use prc-tools to build Palm apps, that's all I want to do. I don't want a fake bit of another OS clogging up my machine with rubbish. Bill's done enough of that for me already :-) Surely all I really need is the compiler, linker, debugger and make? I've noticed that the Palm programming groups are very old fashioned in their approach to development (making a broad generalisation here). You can get away with it for the sort of small apps that you get on the PalmOS. However, some of us are used to more productive environments, tools that help with programming in the large, and spending time on things that matter, rather than having to spend time learning useless (to us, at least) tools just so we can do an install. Although the PalmOS is a better OS, IMO, it has to be said that PocketPC has the better dev tools. VS.NET is **much** easier to use than anything for the PalmOS. Revelling in the fact that you're using command line tools is not doing anything to convince many people that programming for the Palm is a good idea. My boss in my new job is convinced that the PalmOS is doomed, purely because of that, and it's a common perception. Misguided perhaps (I hope!), but still common. Cheers, Jim Cooper _______________________________________________ Jim Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Falafel Software http://www.falafelsoft.co.uk _______________________________________________ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
