-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:33 AM
To: 'Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDp v8 announced -- available Oct 26th. -- Runs on Linux!
(Actually the problem is the same with Eclipse itself as SWT is
platform-dependent, which is why there is 16 different supported platform
downloads on the full Eclipse download page. Two for Windows, seven for
Linux and three for OS X. There is even one for AIX which _could_ possibly
run on the i, but probably won't)
I am totally aware of that and I said that Eclipse is multi-platform capable, not stating which platform is supported or by which way it is achieved.
And to make platform dependent code is not so bad if the code is ported to the different platforms as Eclipse is currently doing it.
/Thorbjørn
-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Schmidt, Mihael
Sent: 13. oktober 2010 09:31
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDp v8 announced -- available Oct 26th. -- Runs on
Linux!
You make it sound like a new feature to have a linux client when they really
have screwed it up years ago because the base platform, Eclipse, is
multi-platform capable.
The usage of not portable C libs was definitly wrong in the first place.
Hope the did some bugfixes on the outline. It still is a mess.
... enough ranting from me ... long live RDP (till the next name change) =)
Mihael
-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 8:07 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDp v8 announced -- available Oct 26th. -- Runs on
Linux!
Den 13/10/10 06.45, Scott Klement skrev:
We want freedom, not shackles. Quit trying to tie us up to particular
client OSes! Your tool is written in Java for cryin' out loud!
I believe the problem is that much functionality is leveraged from
existing libraries written in C, and getting those libraries to run well
on multiple platforms is quite a different story.
midrange.com
