Re: GSoC Project: Replacement for Apropos

[Marc Balmer <mbalmer%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> Thanks for the pointers regarding the build tools used and the coding
> guidelines.  I will be using C for creating this utility, so that's no
> concern.
> 
> I have installed NetBSD on my hard disk as well as on QEMU with Linux
> as the host OS. I am currently trying to play and configure the
> development environment inside qemu, so that I can repeat the same on
> the actual installation of netbsd and switch to it permanently, as for
> some strange reasons I am not able to make my system dual boot.
> 
> I installed gnome ,  I ran gdm on the terminal, it started gnome, but
> after logging in it gave an error, and went back to the terminal.
> 
> Rather than troubling you with the problem, I want to know how do you
> guys do development usually ? What desktop environment you use and are
> there any documentation for this ?

I am using a Mac Book Pro Laptop, running Mac OS X.  I run different
NetBSDs inside VMware Fusion and use BBEdit to edit files over sftp
directly in the virtualized NetBSD machine.  I usually have several ssh
connections to the virtual machine open, to start compiler and such, but
the editing is done on Mac OS X using BBEdit.