On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Tamas Rudnai wrot= e: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Bento, Joseph (Electronic Communications > Tech) wrote: > >> Hi-Tech's OSX version worked with Eclipse. =A0I don't believe this is >> available since Hi-Tech was acquired my Microchip. >> > > Exactly! So all that Microchip should have done to release Hi-Tech with > eclipse which was working already -- maybe C18, and MPASM and MPSIM would > have been needed to compile on Linux and Mac and interfacing with Eclipse > too similarly with PICC, but pretty much job done. > > Maybe I watch this in a wrong way, but otherwise why did they pay off > HiTech? They had something already plus a team who knew how to do this > already. > HiTech's strong point is the compiler technology. And it immediately brings the PICC compiler for PIC12/16 which Microchip does not have. As for HiTech's expertise in Eclipse, I am pretty sure that is almost non-existent judging on their Eclipse IDE implementation. --=20 Xiaofan --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .