[Coco] Phoenix IDE - Ubuntu 10.04 under Wine

[Andrew]

Roger:

I wasn't meaning to imply you should give your source code away; I 
already know you won't (and probably can't, given the other commercial 
stuff you use to make it?). I thus had to fall back to Wine - I don't 
have a copy of XP, nor will I purchase one (until I get that apology) - 
so I can't use a VM or anything like that, either.

So I tried with Wine; personally, your stuff seemed to install fine - 
but it (Wine) complained about not having .NET installed (what version 
are you using, btw?) - so I tried installing - and that's where it all 
fell down.

So I don't think its your stuff, but Microsoft's .NET (or the installer 
for .NET - not sure, like I said, I got 1.1 installed OK).

I simply wrote what Wine spit back at me about needing "the windows 
version of Mono" - because that error code is kinda "in jest", meaning 
"get the real .NET installed"; a jab at Microsoft, maybe.

It's really strange that this fails so much - because for some reason 
when .NET came out, it was supposed to be this nice competitor for 
cross-platform development for Java, etc (at least, that's what I 
remember about it), and Microsoft even funded the Mono development in 
some manner, and...well...I guess it really was a bunch of hogwash on 
Microsoft's part (maybe they figured "we'll only support the 1.0 stuff, 
screw 'em").

I know that Wine not an OS (its not an emulator, either); I've been 
doing this Linux thing since 1995 or so, so I am kinda familiar with 
this stuff. But I'll only go so far off the beaten path to get things to 
work, especially when were talking about Wine, Mono, .NET, and who knows 
what else.

An interesting thing though:

I was able to install the Windows version of EagleCAD just fine; seemed 
to run ok (I don't know much about the program, but playing with it for 
a few minutes seemed to indicate that it was fairly stable). I know that 
they have a native Linux installer though, should I decide to really use 
it (though I am really thinking about someday learning gEDA instead - 
why suffer the limits of commercial "freeware"?).

Still - I am thinking maybe I am close with Phoenix; maybe if you could 
let me know what version of .NET you are compiling against, that could help?

-- Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona