[Coco] Phoenix IDE

[Frank Pittel]

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.