[hpsdr] SW developement (was Cyclops - Spectrum Analyzer)

[Elio Corbolante]

>Nice project, of interest for a large public so far the software 
>will be created by the use of modern programming.
>Phil, in the meanwhile programming environments have migrated to 
>multiplatform tool suites. This to offer software on the basis of 
>1-time-write and run on different computer platforms.
>Single platform programming is definitively out and so the use of 
>customized objects and languagaes having application on a single 
>operating system.
>In other words, due to questionable marketing strategies, security 
>and privacy issues, non equilibrated product price/quality ratio of 
>the company wich products you are sustaining of, many people has, is 
>and will migrate to other operating systems.
>This means that a significantly growing large part of the people 
>interested on the HPSDR and Cyclops projects are willing to run the 
>related software on different operating systems as that you are 
>planning to build the software for.
>I suggest to leave the construction of such software to that 
>programmers being sufficiently up to date and able to use the actual 
>multiplatform programming environments.
>It really makes non more sense to limit HPSDR to a continuously 
>decrementing bunch of people using M$ products (sorry!).
>What I'm stating is not to abandon programming for the Windows 
>operating system but to heavly enlarge the final target including 
>millions of people wordking with different computers.
>Please take this in mind for the other projects related to HPSDR or 
>you (we) will more and more restrict HPSDR's group and projects to 
>an elite group on a niche product instead of spreading research and 
>development passion.
>
>vy 73s de Andreas - ik2wqi

I'm sorry bu I disagree with you: maybe you don't know the MONO 
"environment": it let you run applications written with Microsoft's 
.NET on different OS like Linux/OS X/ ...
I think it will be better if you take a look at the following address:

http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

You'll find that the much dreaded M$ was praised for the .NET initiative.

Unfortunately lots of people talk bad about Microsoft ONLY because it 
is Microsoft.
Even an "evil" company like MS can develop some good products like 
the .NET framework.
We have also to thank the MONO developers for their BIG effort to 
port .NET on other OSs!!!

.    ciao
_        Elio.

P.S. It is a pleasure to run the same executable on Windows/Linux/OS 
X without even recompiling it!!!
P.P.S.: Dear IK2WQI, please can you suggest other multi OS 
developement environments? (Java excluded)