Hello John I see that pgEdit is for both Windows and Mac. Which toolkit did you use to develop it and what are your primary development environment? Ritesh On 11/28/06, John DeSoi <desoi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 28, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Tony Caduto wrote: > They are serious applications, but they don't exactly have a lot of > forms and look how long Mozilla was in development. I think the various interfaces in something like Thunderbird shows it can do all the standard GUI stuff pretty well. > The reason there is no highly productive IDE for Linux/Mac with a > nice forms designer and robust data binding is because in the grand > scheme of things there are not a lot of > desktop users for anything other than win32. Sure there are lots > of geeks that use Linux for their desktop, but not everyday users. > Everyday users are the ones companies etc want to make software for > and Linux etc just does not have those kind of users yet. > The mac does, but they are small in number > CodeGear(Borland devtools group) will make a IDE for Mac or Linux > when they can make a viable return on investment. They > experimented with Kylix, but it failed because they initially > priced it to high and many open source users will not pay even a > reasonable amount for a IDE. > There are highly productive IDEs for the Mac with all the goodies you mention. But few are cross-platform. Your statement about Windows desktop market share is correct, but it is not the relevant point. Many people are interested in cross- platform tools because they want to serve the Windows desktop market, but not have to give up Linux or OS X to do it. John DeSoi, Ph.D. http://pgedit.com/ Power Tools for PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
