Osmoz : an IDE for Mozart/Oz

[Filip Konvička]

Hi Ludwig!

> I am writing this message to announce that I just launched a sourceforge 
> project, osmoz, that will be an IDE + visual designer for Mozart/Oz. The 
> purpose of this project is to offer an alternative to Emacs, but also to 
> explore the conception of new tools in the case of multiparadigm rapid 
> development.
> 
> A pre-alpha version of this IDE is already available! It was made for my 
> BS's diploma, this year, here in Brussels. The problem is the 
> portability since it is written in C# for .NET. I'm currently working on 
> a cross-platform version of this one, made in XUL, XBL, Javascript and 
> SVG, and that is intend to work inside the Firefox browser and, later, 
> with Xulrunner.
> 
> these files are available at http://osmoz.sourceforge.net/

Cool!

However, I can't resist to ask :-) Have you considered writing an 
Eclipse plugin instead?

> Installation notes : The ozc compiler has to be in the windows path. The 
> implementation use the Gtk librairies. Gtk works fine with mozart 1.3.1, 
> but the librairies were missing when I installed mozart 1.3.2. I had to 
> copy the GTK folder from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2, and to install the old gtk 1.3 
> dll in /windows/system32 in order to launch the generated applications.

Huh, could you please submit a bugreport? This is probably my fault ;-) 
If you do, please include info on which directories/files from 1.3.1 
were missing. Thank you!

Cheers,
Filip