[Coco] Rainbow IDE in Wine

[Roger Taylor]

I managed to set up my Linux laptop today with a wireless connection 
to my network, and remote desktop.  From my Vista laptop I decided to 
call up the linnie desktop and play around... so I ran Firefox.. went 
to rainbowide.com, clicked on the download link, then Linux asked me 
to open it in Wine, which I did...

To my surprise, Rainbow ran the installer just like it would under 
Windows, and the IDE showed up in the Wine menu under Programs.  And, 
Rainbow runs under Wine.  I see some flaws, but I just ran a project 
right out of the box (bubblesort), and it built!  That means CCASM 
got installed as well, and the other assemblers.  The IDE readout 
window shows no problems for the build.  The main toolbar didn't show 
up, and the tab controls are missing, but that's probably because of 
a bug in the toolbar, and my subclassing of the MDI tabs.

This is the closest thing we can have for now for getting Rainbow on 
Linux, but I'm not sure how practical it will be for serious 
use.  Anybody already do this, and do you have any stories?

Now it's on the porting CCASM to Linux... only I'm going to cheat, 
and do it all from Vista, never touching the linnie box.  :)

-- 
Roger Taylor