Re: Off the record: A developers system

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Thursday, June 21, 2001, at 09:56 AM, Dennis Leeuw wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is not a GNUstep question, but just something I would like to know.
>
> If I was to build a developers system, what would you like to have
> inside. What are essential tools and libraries and what would be nice.


I suspect there is no common answer to this -


I use GNUstep-base, GNUstep-Guile, JIGS, Java, Apache-SSL,
and am looking to move to using Tomcat as a servlets engine.

I use an objc patched version of gdb a *lot*

I use TeX and texinfo and libxml for generating documentation

I edit using vi

I use WindowMaker of course - but never use any of it's fancy features

I use Netscape but really just want the fastest and most reliable 
browser I can find -
it needs to be able to use a good version of xpdf to display pdf files 
directly.
It needs reliable SSL from behind a firewall and quickly configurable 
proxy support.

Currently I use  MacOS-X laptop for my mail, 'cos I loved NeXTs 
Mail.app, and the MacOS-X
version is the closest I can get.   However, it crashes at least twice a 
day, so I'd love
a Mail.app clone that would work under GNU/Linux and would never crash 
or corrupt things.
I used the NeXT Mail.app to handle hundreds of messages every day for 
years without a single
crash - the flakiness of the Apple version is a huge disappointment to 
me.  MacOS 10.0.4 is
just out - perhaps it's improved/fixed the bugs in Mail.app.  Even if it 
has, I'd prefer to
have a good GNU/Linux mailer for ideological reasons :-)

I use ssh and kerberos for talking to many other machines, and 
socks/runsocks for
going through firewalls.