application development question

Hi All,

I'm about to start porting a couple small programs that I did on the 
Palm to GPE/Familiar so I was wondering what environment most people use 
for application development.  The www.handhelds.org website suggests 
that the preferred methods are 1) native development, 2) using the 
compile farm, and 3) cross compilation.  Does Intimate need to be 
installed to do native development or can I use Familiar?  It seems that 
OpenEmbedded (which would be choice 3) is being adopted as a standard 
but I'm not sure if that's only for kernel development or for 
applications as well.

As a separate question, does anyone use wxGPE (and, is it any good) or 
should I stick to GTK2?

Thanks!

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Wade Guthrie
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