every platform has its own little quirks and issues - it really comes down to
how well you can manage the development kits to do exactly what you need
to have done
Indeed. I've moved to doing all my development on virtual machines - this makes
everything much neater and cleaner. It is also much easier to move development
environments to new machines - just copy the VM files and you're away.
If you're using > 1 tool that uses cygwin for example, installation is a
complete PITA. Separating the tools onto different VMs is a lot easier :-)
if you are using an open source toolchain, you have access to the source
> code in which you can fix some of the issues yourself.
In theory you can. In practice that is often extremely difficult. There is also
not generally a good business case for doing that.
I sympathise with the OP though. PODS definitely sucks - it's an incredibly
primitive tool by today's standards. I personally wouldn't use it.
but now since Palm OS is becoming more
commercialized - the "hacker" and "fun" community is dying.
Not just those. The business market is dying too, IME. A few years ago any
interest I saw for bespoke PDA apps was all about Palms, now they barely rate a
mention (they're last behind PocketPC, Symbian and Blackberry - maybe the other
way around for the last two). A pity, as I much prefer the PalmOS myself.
there are plenty of other platforms - you dont have to develop for palmos.
Absolutely. Better business cases probably exist for the others, in fact.
Cheers,
Jim Cooper
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Skype : jim.cooper
Tabdee Ltd http://www.tabdee.ltd.uk
TurboSync - Connecting Delphi to your Palm
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