[mercury-users] Your postings about the prospective IDE.

[RMJ]

Dear All who wrote giving suggestions for the IDE,

Thank you so much for your suggestions. Here is what I
found (from programmers/CS students):

- Eclipse is too much trouble. 

- Creating Qt or Gtk bindings takes too much time.
Bindings generator is usually not enough. It takes
some manual editing too. C wrapper for Qt is available
so it's as good as Gtk.

- I tried Tcl/Tk (Java's Swing too) several years ago
and I don't think it can be used to build a
good-looking and handy IDE (I got the same answer from
others too).

- I think Clean's IDE is for MS-Windows only. They
have problems with X as I recall.


So, with the little time that I have my quick search
ended with two possible ways to go: 

1- FreePascal/Lazarus: Free Delphi-like RAD with which
a simple and good-looking IDE can be created and
compiled for several platforms including MS-Windows.

2- Boa constructor: wxPython GUI Builder (also RAD)
and since it's Python it should run on MS-Windows too.

I'm a little rusty with Pascal but I can see that it
will take the least possible time to develop. I or
anybody else who is kind enough to contribute can add
more and more features in the future. The project is
under heavy development. The current beta product is
usable and can do a lot (really a lot). I tried it and
in a matter of minutes found how handy it is. There
are many bugs but not in the objects that I intend to
use.

Boa is under slow development pace. I have no idea how
good it is. Scripting languages are probably too slow
for a GUI IDE !?!

So, I'll start with FreePascal/Lazarus soon and see
how it goes.

Thank you All again.

Cheers,

Rod.

P.S. to Richard A. O'Keefe: Hold your horses! Thank you.

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