I agree wholeheartedly.
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FIRST would not even have to maintain it. The community would.
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There was somebody trying to write and eclipse plugin for FIRST.. Don't know what happened there.. I hope that FIRST takes our requests seriously as they plan the '09 Robot Controller. There is no reason why FIRST can't move to open source. (Unless there are some behind the scenes deals going on! Though I doubt that..) Aaaanyway, best thing to do for now is to either bite the bullet and get a windows box up and running with mplab/c18, or use the makefile/wine/text editor.
personally: I use linux in the lab (we have 2 thinkpads with xubuntu) with the makefile/wine workaround. At home (and sometimes in the lab), I just use VMWare + MPLab on my Macbook. However, I usually edit the text code in OSX and then fire up MPLAB in the lab to load code. While 20GB just for a robot code loader is INSANE (granted I did put autodesk on it), i sometimes forget that I am dealing with operating systems here...