Wine SoC idea: get your favorite IDE working

[Stephan Rose]

On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 06:17 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> As the CEO of a famous operating system company once said,
> "I have four words for you: developers, Developers, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!"
> ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE )
> 
> Attracting more developers (not of wine, but of their own apps) to Linux
> by getting their IDEs running on Wine would be great for wine,
> as developers are more likely than the average user to file bug reports
> or (dare we hope) fix bugs.  So it would be good to get popular IDEs
> working on Wine.
> 
> Newer Microsoft IDEs like Visual Studio 2005 are a challenge,
> Visual Studio 2005 express requires BITS (which is a SoC project in itself,
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5054)
> 
> Some IDEs run fairly well if you install DCOM98, in which case you
> would write conformance tests exposing the problems in our COM
> implementation so Rob can fix them :-)
> Older IDEs like Visual C++ 6 and Visual Basic 6 are in this category.  cf.
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4931
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5321
> 
> And then there's Eclipse, Delphi, Turbo C++, IntelliJ, Powerbuilder, Access,
> Visual Fox Pro, and many others.  There are also specialized IDEs like
> AVRStudio (an IDE for embedded developers) which people want to run in Wine
> (see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5312).
> 
> Picking one or two of these and focusing on getting its problems
> solved might be very useful.
> - Dan
> 

Another IDE I can throw out there is MPLAB. It is a major showstopper
for anything doing PIC Development.

It is freely down-loadable here:

http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en019469&part=SW007002

Stephan