Yes, for one file it makes sense. I wouldn't call one Komodo command drastical customization, but you at least escape the need to have a scratchbox installed.

agreed
scratchbox was the biggest problem with my mind.

I was learning all about linux at the time (still am) and the thought of running a system inside a system when i didn't understand the outside just made me seek out an onboard solution.

regarding komodo, I'll read up about the commands, I did want to do something else with it for change notification (f5 to make automatic comment header including date and nick) but didn't have the energy to readup.

for a complete system rebuild, it takes about a minute with the cpu on performance, its an ideal time to catch up in chat or read the top of slash.

I've never thought it to be strange or unusual and most work projects in .net take longer by default

Yeah, i'm working with .NET lately, our project takes about a minute to build. Anyway my Vala browser builds for about 5-10 secs in Scratchbox and that's fine with me for now

Now SB2 is coming. Heavily limited platform, since it relies on its parent OS to do most of the work. Imagine my frustration when I discovered that I can't run it in my openSUSE 11.1 directly. Then I downloaded an Ubuntu VirtualBox image, but running an emulator in an emulator is not a good and fast experience. So I converted the VirtualBox image to fixed, mounted it as a drive, copied the contents to my partition and now i'm chrooting to it whenever i want to compile in SB2. Took me two days to figure all that out and I wonder how Maemo-SDK+ is going to help development for Fremantle if it is so tied up to the OS...

words fail me.

I wasn't going to use Windows as a dev platform for the N810. That's why I mentioned Ubuntu and Debian. I was just mentioning that I was also considering making a dual-boot machine with a Linux and Windows 7.

I am impressed enough with Ubuntu that I, literally, bought the T-shirt... and the coffee mug, and the stress ball

Hey, they're doing it right and deserve some cash. I'm even running it at work, a Windows shop, though I'm doing it in a virtual machine. Works great, putting all the personal stuff "off to the side."

Speaking of virtualisation... and N810 development... has anyone built a complete Maemo development environment in a virtual machine? Now, that would be useful.

... Oh, never mind, Google is my friend:
Maemo SDK VMware
I'll grab the torrent and give it a try.

David...

..must resist
..must have strength ;-)

WinSCP also has a basic text editor built-in. I like the way WinSCP lets you edit linux text files without trashing them, unlike many (most) other Windows text editors. And you can edit the files in-place, that is, you use WinSCP to get onto the tablet, then you double click on your script and it opens on your Windows desktop. You edit and hit the save button and presto, you can immediately run the script on the tablet.

I also use Cygwin + openssh instead of putty because that gives me an X Server on my Windows box that lets me do X-forwarding... For example, when ssh'ed into my tablet from Windows (running Debian sshd, not maemo sshd), I accidentally started up the full XFce4 environment on my tablet, forwarded to my Windows box... This produced a weird result...