Re: [MLUG] Software development: was mono

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> I have never used .NET and don't really know what it is about.
>
> But I have done software development in C.  I have been rather surprized 
> to find the Linux/Unix development process much easier than the 
> Microsoft development process.
>
> The Microsoft approach is a rather expensive product called Visual 
> Studio. Probably most of my problems are unfamiliarity with the product, 
> but I have yet to even figure out how to even start writing a program.
>
> The Linux/Unix approach is to use csh or bash along with an editor, my 
> favorite is nedit, and a hand built Makefile to put it all together.  I 
> just find this so much easier.  But again it is probably familiarity.


It's probably not quite what you would most like to do, but instead of 
developing for Windows, you can develop for Cygwin.  Windows users can 
then download and install Cygwin (very easy) and run your program.  For 
you, the work is just about the same as developing for Linux or FreeBSD. 
If you can get something to run under Linux, I'll bet you can get it to 
run under Cygwin.  Read more here:

http://www.cygwin.com/

I liked it so much that I installed *everything*.  That takes up some disk 
space (maybe 2 GB for the works) but these days disk space is pretty 
cheap.

Mike

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