Geoff Taylor said: > > David P. Bowler said: > > > > I think you misunderstand much of Mono's value. It is not about > > attacking Java's base, its about giving the even larger > Windows world > > the opportunity to explore new platforms. Having ported > applications > > from dotNet to Mono, I have seen first hand its value. > > I thought the point of Mono was that you didn't have to port > applications. No?
Well, we quibble over semantics, then. Quite a few of our base libraries and business logic layers worked with no alteration to the code, but we did recompile, so I used the term "port" to mean that we didn't simply drop the dll's on a SuSe box. Certain processes that made use of registry or other OS specific things did need to be modified though. > In my opinion, Mono would be tremendously valuable if it > allowed any .NET application to run on it. I grant you > that's a hugely difficult task for parts like Winforms, but > that seems to me where the value lies. (Last time I looked > Winforms support wasn't available in Mono, but that was a > very long time ago.) As was posted by another, the WinForms effort is coming along fine, but we were never particularly interested in it as Winforms were irrelevent to us. > Having it as another platform that you need to port to just > makes it too easy for folks to ignore. Well, all I can say is, I disagree. If you are a dotNet shop on windows that has ANY interest in platforms other than windows at ay point, then Mono CANNOT be ignored. If platform independence was a big deal to you in the first place, why aren't you using Java already? What Mono has done is opened up other platforms to windows/dotNet shops to a degree unheard of before in the world of MS-only shops. I'd rather not go down this path anymore as this is not a Mono list, but I will close by saying that Mono is open source and Java, as Sun defines it, is NOT. So, lets not pretend that Java is perceived as any sort of golden child in the linux world. But, YMMV... I am more interested in the original topic of thhis thread anyway. That IoC stuff is new to me, and sounds very slick. :) Cheers, David =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
