[Coco] Phoenix IDE

[Joel Ewy]

On 05/02/2011 09:50 PM, Frank Pittel wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 10:13:20PM -0400, Tony wrote:
>> On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 21:09 -0500, Roger Taylor wrote:
>>> At 09:05 PM 5/2/2011, you wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 04:56:23PM -0500, Roger Taylor wrote:
>>>>> At 04:56 PM 5/2/2011, you wrote:
>>>>>> Does it run under linux?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Other Frank
>>>>>
>>>>> Please, Frank.  We've been through this before.  I beg to say No
>>>>> without a war starting.  :)
>>>> No flame war intended. It's your software and it's your right to
>>>> target it to whatever OS
>>>> you want. I ask because at one time you offered an ide that while
>>>> not native to linux ran
>>>> well under wine.
>>>>
>>>> The Other Frank
>>>
>>> The Rainbow IDE seems to work under Wine, but it's an API based
>>> app.  Phoenix is .NET framework based.
>>>
>> Even so, it's nothing that VirtualBox with a Windows XP VM in seamless
>> mode can't solve... Or VMWare with Unity, for that matter...
> While virtualbox and vmware work they're at best a kludge. I use virtualbox for the
> handful of apps that I need and will only run under windows. Fortunately there are only a
> small handfull. Even wine is a kludge. A native linux app is best and the only ones I'm
> interested in paying money for.
>
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Actually, if it is .NET-based, you might look into Mono.  100% of the 
.NET programs I've tried running under Mono in Ubuntu have worked.  Of 
course, that was just a single program.  :-)  But it's worth a try...

JCE