Any web developers who use pdaX?

[CoreyC]

If so, what linux tools do you use on your desktop?  As long as they don\'t require KDE or Gnome I\'ll try to compile them for pdaX

I have compiled bluefish for pdaX, which is a very powerful editor for web developers.  The only catch is that the spell checker seg faults, so I am going to recompile it without spell checking support before releasing.  This may be a good thing, depending how you want to look at it.   Bluefish compiled with spell checking support requires aspell, which takes up almost as much storage space as bluefish itself.

The version I have compiled is 0.13, it requires gtk2.  The last version that can use gtk1 is .07, I\'m going to compile that as well for those who want something a little lighter.  (gtk1 apps will run smoother on your Z than gtk2)

I also found GINF: http://www.ndeepak.info/stuff/vtu/ginf/

GINF is a WYSIWYG html editor.  Not as powerful as bluefish, but still looks nice.

[whit]

My main Web development tool has always been joe - a text editor that when invoked as jstar has the WordStar interface that\'s been standard in a good handful of programmer\'s editors over the years (Borland\'s, among others). Far more powerful than nano or pico, but without the modal confusion and overhead of vi. Not sure how many Zaurus types would find it useful though, and it doesn\'t have anything html-specific. So you might just wait until I get up to speed on cross-compiling myself, since it\'ll be one of my first priorities.

[eviLjazz]

joe is awesome! I use it for very quick file edits.
I have an ipk on my server. See \"my packages\" link below. It\'s quite old, but it works with pdaXrom.

Apache + PHP would be nice. There are some packets out there, but not on the pdaXrom feed.

[CoreyC]

whit, I\'ve uploaded joe to the pdaxrom unstable feed

I\'ll upload bluefish tomorrow.. it\'s getting late.

keep the suggestions coming...

[nevarrie]

I figure when I finally get my Zaurus(SL-6000L) I will first get pdax working then I think I will make Nvu work, because I like its dreamweaver like interface.  Though more likely I will uses vim for almost everything either on the Z or sshed to one of my servers and working on my php code or templates.

[eviLjazz]

Great! Thanks CoreyC, you\'re the man!

Since when does joe have syntax coloring???! Amazing!

[whit]

Wow!!

Now if I could just figure out why \"ipkg install joe\" (or nano for that matter) tries to save a file \"___.ipk\" of 0 length. (Then it complains that the \"_\" makes it an illegal filename - but that\'s no matter since there\'s really no file.)

Note: ipkg install firefox works - just some ipks that won\'t go.

[eviLjazz]

Just add
src cacko-unstable http://www.pdaxrom.org/unstable
to the file /etc/ipkg.conf
and update the package cache by
ipkg update

[whit]

Ah ... thanks!

[CoreyC]

I figure when I finally get my Zaurus(SL-6000L) I will first get pdax working then I think I will make Nvu work, because I like its dreamweaver like interface.  Though more likely I will uses vim for almost everything either on the Z or sshed to one of my servers and working on my php code or templates.

Nvu looks very nice!  I\'d compile it but it requires a mozilla build, and I never figured out how to cross compile it (what a pain).  I\'ll have to compile it natively over nfs after I get a new SD card (low on my priority list) to hold the 128mb swapfile that a mozilla build requires.  A native compile of mozilla also takes well over 24 hours, making it hard to troubleshoot if something goes wrong.

I actually have 2 different builds of mozilla on my list of things to do once I get a new card.  One for nvu, and a build of mozilla 1.0 so I can build skipstone (a lightweight mozilla browser that I\'m sure would run smoothly on pdaX)

Check out bluefish for now, many of you experienced web developers should find it useful.