From: Will Honea    
      
   Andreas Kohl wrote:   
      
   > Hallo,   
   >    
   > Fritz Wuehler schrieb:   
   >>    
   >> Hello os2 professionals! What os2 version is best for development? I   
   >> mean, what os2 is most stable and has a good choice of compilers   
   >> debuggers etc. for my personal use. I just want to learn abit I dont plan   
   >> to do commerical software with it and I dont like windows very   
   >> much....TIA   
   >    
   > Most stable depends on used hardware.   
   >    
   > I think that OS/2 2.11 with latest fixpak is really "most stable" and   
   > usable for native OS/2 development using OpenWatcom C/C++ 1.8 (V 1.9 is   
   > far away from stable or reliable) or EMX 0.9d / GCC.   
   > For WPS-Development IBM VisualAge C++ will do a better job. Borland C++   
   > has some good tools - especially the Resource Editor.   
   >    
   > All this will run fine in a virtual machine (Virtual PC).   
      
   I used 2.11 until I was pretty much forced to Warp Connect (Warp 3) by the    
   lack of networking in 2.11.  The move from Warp 3 to Warp 4 was basically a    
   business decision as my major contracts were using Warp 4 but with the    
   latest fixpaks taht was not a really big change in usability.   
      
   I would interject that VACCP 3 was probably the best development platform I    
   have used once they got the debugger straightened out but I was never    
   comfortable with VisualAge 4 - they never got that solid enough to suit me.    
   If you do database interface and/or WPS development, VACPP 3 is hard to    
   beat.   
      
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   Will Honea   
      
      
   --- Internet Rex 2.31   
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