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Subject: Re: [half OT] Need help: choice of an IDE to build Chess Tiger for Linux

Author: Tapio Huuhka

Date: 15:07:48 01/07/03

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On January 06, 2003 at 21:42:41, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On January 06, 2003 at 11:56:34, Tapio Huuhka wrote:
>
>>On January 05, 2003 at 21:47:35, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On January 04, 2003 at 06:04:59, Tapio Huuhka wrote:
>>>
>>>>There seems to be RHIDE for Linux available at http://www.rhide.com/ /downloads.
>>>>Built with SuSE 7.2. If that doesn't work with Redhat why not switch to SuSE or
>>>>Debian?
>>>>
>>>>Tapio
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>RedHat has the biggest market share.
>>
>>Are you sure you are not letting the tail wag the dog? I mean that you probably
>>will have to port your tools anyway, so why not use the distro that has what you
>>need for development right now (RHIDE and gcc or are you going to use another
>>compiler) and worry about the product distribution later. Just a thought that
>>you might need gcc for compatibility reasons between Linux distros. I'm not
>>pretending to be an expert, but this seems to be a reasonable question for a
>>Linux newsgroup. Have you done that already?
>
>
>
>gcc is available on ALL Linux distros.
>
>gcc is the basic tools used to build Linux.
>
>But gcc is just a command-line compiler. I'm looking for an IDE.
>

Sure, that's the point I was trying to make. GCC is not the problem, so I can't
see why you couldn't choose the distribution where RHIDE is available for
development.

>There are maybe one hundred distros out there (have a look at
>www.distrowatch.com). Some of them representing less than 0.1% of the Linux
>users.
>
>Each distribution has its own problems and might require some adaptation work
>from me.
>
>That's why I will support only the most used distros. And naturally I will use
>one of them.
>
Well, I wouldn't say naturally, but naturally it's your project and your choice.
:)

Tapio
>
>
>    Christophe



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