Hello,

I have a multi-programmer project coming up. The application will be compiled, run and tested on a remote Linux box. I myself use FC4 + KDE + KDevelop, but the others with whom I will be working using Windows + Visual Studio 2k3. Are there any higher level (for lack of a better term) ways for them to code their share of the project from Windows besides Putty + Vim/Emacs ?

Your suggestions will be much appreciated.

Well, we ran a tiny development setup with two coders until recently. It was based on an old 300mHz machine (!). What I did was to have CVS on the remote machine, which also hosted the MySQL and Apache servers (we were doing PHP development on it). One developer (me) was in Linux, the other in XP. He used to telnet / ssh in to do commits and updates, and he used an editor called JEdit (which is a bit like emacs, it seemed to me, with windows).

The remote machine exported Samba shares for the project that could be transparently accessed in both Linux and Windows - but you seem to have figured this all out already?

I had two sets of "working" directories - mine and my partner's, and each day at end of business we would both commit our changes for that day. It worked like a charm.

So, no, I can't see how your Windows developers are going to access and work on the Linux machine without Putty, but Emacs can easily be replaced with something more Windows environment friendly, I suppose.

My two cents...