> Again, what exactly do you mean by "officially supported" and why is
> this important to you? If you're using Linux, are you using a distro
> that is "officially supported"? If not (which is likely :), why is this
> not important for the distro but for the CLI that you're using?

Depends on what you mean by support.  If you want to be able to get an
engineer to fly out and help you, then that is possible with only a few
Linux distributions, and not the more popular.  But if you want to be able
to get help with your problem, then you can make a much better argument
that Windows is not "officially supported", at least as compared to the
larger distros.

>> Getting back to the original subject, Microchip would not be able to
>> develop a multi platform MPLAB in .NET and C#, would they?
>
> C# and CLI are much younger than Java, and yes, they were probably not
> started as an attempt to create something that runs also on Linux. So
> they are lagging in that respect. OTOH, I don't know, I haven't tried.
> Lucas has, and he seems to think that except for the drivers, it's
> possible. FWIW, I have seen some awfully bad Java apps (besides some
> really nice ones).

I suspect that a C# MPLAB would be quite reasonable, based on my limited
playing with Mono, but because of distrust of M$, many of the Linux
distros are backing off from Mono support, or at least discussing it.  But
although Sun made some headway for a while there, we seem to be moving
toward that same problem with Java again.

Personally, I'm not the biggest fan of Java, but an Eclipsed-based MPLAB
could be way cool.  I have to admit, tho, I am skeptical of Microchip
pulling that off.

--McD


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