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Date:      Sun, 4 Feb 2001 17:12:11 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        john@T-F-I.freeserve.co.uk
Cc:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: software development tools - microsoft and unix
Message-ID:  <14973.57803.289200.425874@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <kdpj7tgjd5q063lkadi8h37s08ol3nkgmb@4ax.com>
References:  <20010201183650.C76922@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <kdpj7tgjd5q063lkadi8h37s08ol3nkgmb@4ax.com>

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John Murphy <john253@crosswinds.net> types:
> j mckitrick wrote:
> >It seems if there is one thing Microsoft does well, it is providing powerful
> >development tools.  If you ignore the fact that they use proprietary
> >language extensions, what is the problem with these tools?  They have taken
> >the industry by storm, and even Kdevelop has tried to clone the Visual
> >studio look and feel.
> 
> Borland does it better and there's some excitement about Kylix on /.
> http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/31/1634222.shtml
> 
> There's also Glade (comes with the Gnome Desktop), probably very similar
> to Kdevelop, which I haven't looked at yet.

Since I just got reminded of it - Vistasource open sourced the
application builder they ship with Applixware Office. Details,
downloads, etc. at <URL: http://shelf.sourceforge.net/ >.

The major drawback is that it works with ELF, the Applixware extension
language.

	<mike
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>			http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
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