On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 13:37, tonyl wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a thought and I wanted to check interested level... > > Now that .NET SSCLI works on BSD and Max OS X...I was thinking about > creating a .NET Frame work WYSIWYG Editor. > > This would solve the cross platform portability issue...now that > Microsoft seems committed to porting .NET to other operating > systems...it would appear that the single platform argument against them > will slowly disappear. > No, it's still as strong as ever. :)
> Oh ya...the source code to the SSCLI is available for download from > Microsoft's site. > Unless they port the actual class libraries to all the neato external stuff - the stuff that actually makes it worthwhile (web forms classes, for example) - this is a non-issue. VBScript has been ported (more or less) to Unix via Chilisoft years ago. That didn't mean that all the external libraries (DLL files) would run at all under Unix. Similarly, unless MS specifically opens the source to large volumes of .net class libraries, the 'portable code' will be limited to 'hello world'-type demonstrations. The go-mono.org project (I think that's it) has been making a bit of headway in trying to port or reverse engineer some of the libraries, but I don't think they have the manpower to get it close to done any time soon. -- Michael Kimsal http://www.logicreate.com 734-480-9961 -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
