[plug] Novell followup

[Bernard Blackham]

John writes back with answers to some of the questions from their
presentation last week...

----- Forwarded message from John Haynes <jhaynes at novell.com> -----

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:08:47 -0600
From: John Haynes <jhaynes at novell.com>
Subject: Novell followup for PLUG

Thanks for letting us be part of the PLUG forum on Wednesday night.
I really enjoyed the occasion.  There were a couple of questions
which I have attempted to answer for you in this email.
I also will send the Novell Linux Desktop dvd to Bernard for the
library.
 
There was a Debian question which I cant really answer but there is
a great url which covers a Debian user questions on "how to" if he
moved to SUSE.
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/nnlsmag/features/tips/t_suse_forums_nls.html
 
 
1.  Anne asked the question "is there a standard IDE for Mono"?
And below are the responses I received.  I didnt edit them.
 
"MonoDevelop will be the IDE that we recommend to third-party
developers as the IDE for developing using Mono on Linux.  It is
available as an RPM now and the stability is greatly improved."
 
"The mono project (www.go-mono.com) has a lot of information about
"monodevelop" which is an IDE.  It is actually a port of a free
Windows IDE (C# Develop from icsharpcode.net).  I don't have it
installed right now, so I can't comment on using it.  But it's the
one that the mono project refers to from their web pages. "
 
"although there is "some" support in Eclipse for Mono, I believe the
best option might be Monodevelop (http://www.monodevelop.com) which
is the "official" IDE for Mono on Linux.  However, I am not sure
about its state and stability because it is in its early stages -
you will have to test it yourself.

For Windows platforms, there is SharpDevelop that can be downloaded
from sourceforge.net (homepage is at http://icsharpcode.net) but
this focusses mainly on the .NET framework from MS and so much on
Mono (although both platforms have something in common). "
 
2.  Also there was a question about changes to Open Office and where
are they posted and this was the reply.

"It's all in gnome CVS at: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/ooo-build/
I'm not sure about the exact process of getting it upstream, but the
OOo community (such as it is) is well aware of the existence and
location of our work."
 
regards John
 
 
 
John Haynes