RE: WDSC and Linux

I am going to take the minority here, but if making it Windows dependant
also made it faster, I would be the first one to say "Hurray!".  I have a
kick butt machine loaded with memory (1Gig) and it takes 10 seconds to paste
100 lines of code.  That is way to slow!  Sun's IDE (Sun ONE Studio) doesn't
take nearly that long, and from what I understand it is all written in Java.
What's the big difference?

I guess my vote would be _against_ making an effort to port it entirely to
Linux (or platform independence, however you want to say it).  I would be in
more favor of making the thing run at industry standard speeds.

I must note that saving and opening source is much much faster than it was
in CODE - thanks for that.

Just my opinion,
Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Coulthard [mailto:coulthar@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:12 AM
To: CODE400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: WDSC and Linux


The reason we "messed it up" is merely because we still have
that CODE/400 C++ GUI and logic, which is also used by WebFacing
for its conversions. As we replace more and more CODE function
in the RSE, there is more and more we could port to Linux technically...
but it does take resource to do this and like everything we need your
help to prioritize it. So far, each time we do a poll for interest, we get
very small numbers in response. If you want a Linux client for WDSC,
please let us know! PS, the underlying WSSD product is available on
Linux. I'll take it Paul's vote is for it :-).  Actually, FRED is the best
place
to log the requirement and vote for it.

PS: The RSE (minus iSeries support) is now part of the WebSphere
Studio Workbench for business partners who want to include it in their
own products, and as such it now runs on all the eclipse platforms,
including Linux.

Phil Coulthard, iSeries AD,  IBM Canada Ltd. coulthar@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Jon,

The new UI layer that was written runs without a single problem on Linux !
(just take a look at Eclipse).

It is again IBM (while investing tons of dollars in Linux ?) that messed it
up with RSE and the iSeries tools... they don't run on Linux.

Kind regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: code400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:code400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: woensdag 23 juli 2003 0:25
To: code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: How can I "wow" developers with CODE in WDSc 5.0?


 >> Now I imagine if Bill Gates had any interest in writing a front-end for
IBM's WebSphere using core win32 API's.... HA!

Actually I believe that IBM have done just this.  It is one of the reasons
why all of the additional features of WDSc etc. are not yet available on
Linux etc.  If they used swing, it would run on Linux no problem, but it
doesn't - they wrote a new layer of JNI routines to provide the UI.

Imagine how slow it might be if they were using swing!

Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com


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