[Freecats-Dev] About IDE development tools

[Henri Chorand]

Hi all,

I've recently asked myself, where to find a "comprehensive" list of
crossplatform development tools from which to pick one.

In fact, I DO favor Tcl/Tk, even though I'm still a bit irritated by some
weird things in Visual Tcl (probably a genuine newbie's cry). We'll see
about that soon.

But just for your information, here is the background info I could find on
this subject.

P.S. Tcl/Tk seems to be the ONLY one (or one from a VERY restricted set)
which offers portability to ALL the Operating Systems we're targeting.


A recent Slashdot post provided useful background information about
cross-platform IDEs. Even non-developers should find these interesting.
Notes:
- Fox presently does NOT work with Macs, so this rules it out.
- Idem with Gtk (Windows port being "in progress").


Henri


See the following:
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/01/21/2036250.shtml?tid=156

Older Slashdot article
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/06/02/025232.shtml?tid=156

Still other stuff
http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/08/26/0030209.shtml
http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/03/24/1831218.shtml
http://www.atai.org/guitool/
(where they say Qt is the best but it also does not like Macs)
(also see the links under "Tcl" after the big table)

A few excerpts I liked:

What some repeatedly say about Java performance.

> If you are developing cross-platform and do not need a GUI,
> go for C++.
We'll probably use a mix of Tcl and C / C++ for the non-GUI modules.