[info-mcl] ANNOUNCE: MCLIDE 1.0b

[Terje Norderhaug]

On Dec 31, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Alexander Repenning wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Terje Norderhaug wrote:
>> On Dec 30, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Alexander Repenning wrote:
>>> Hemlock works reasonably well and now also works - still  
>>> incomplete - on Windows. This is something that MCL never did and  
>>> unfortunately MCLIDE never will.
>>
>> Never say never - I could certainly make a GUI based remote lisp  
>> IDE on Windows -  but why would you like to have it?
>>
>> I'd thought it would be much more desirable to be able to do most  
>> or all Lisp development using a Mac no matter your target  
>> platform. MCLIDE already works with Lisp implementations on  
>> Windows... from the comfort of your Mac.
>
> I agree. For the most part that is how we do work. We develop on  
> the Mac and test on Windows. The problem is that things, e.g.,  
> OpenGL or Cocoa via Cocotron, are often a bit different. Having  
> Hemlock, or any other tool, working on Windows is still important  
> because otherwise the back and forth, even with Parallels, is  
> pretty tedious.

Have you tried using MCLIDE to develop/test/debug your Windows lisp  
applications from Mac?

A practical setup is to use a PC with Windows for the application and  
target it from a Mac using MCLIDE. That way you can debug and modify  
the application while it is being tested and used in its deliverable  
form.

-- Terje Norderhaug
    terje at in-progress.com




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