On 6/27/07, Tim Newsom wrote:
This could provide the xaml parser for use in an interface design some of us have spoken about. Separating the interface from the actual code that processes the events... Or that's how I understand it. Its a truely awesome development.
Yes it certainly could and would provide a XAML parser. Read this http://jacksonito.blogspot.com/2007/06/mono-developers-guide-to-writing-xaml.html for some more details. They are planning for tools written in MoonLight so that you could develop on Linux or even a Mac (though I sense no love lost on Apple products on this list :). On 6/27/07, Hans De Croix wrote:
Under what license exactly is silverlight/moonlight?
The Mono part of Moonlight uses the DLR. So... "Microsoft's DLR is a layer on top of their Common Language Runtime (CLR), which provides support for dynamically typed languages such as Python, Ruby and JavaScript. The great news is that the DLR is released under Microsoft's Permissive License—their way of saying open source. Microsoft's .NET/DLR implementations of Python and Ruby, named IronPython and IronRuby respectively, are both covered by the same Permissive License as DLR." Mono as a whole has this answer to the license question: " What license or licenses are you using for the Mono Project? We use three open source licenses: * The C# Compiler and tools are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html) (GPL). * The runtime libraries are under the GNU Library GPL 2.0 (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/library.html#TOC1) (LGPL 2.0). * The class libraries are released under the terms of the MIT X11 (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html) license. Both the Mono runtime and the Mono C# Compiler are also available under a proprietary license for those who can not use the LGPL and the GPL in their code. For licensing details, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Specifically Moonlight... "Novell will be requiring copyright assignments or contributions to be made under the MIT X11 license to Moonlight to ensure that we can ship this plugin with proprietary drivers if necessary (and also to relicense Moonlight for embedded system users)." I imagine the OpenMoko embedded system is a special case since it is open but the license is definitely open source. On 6/27/07, Florent THIERY wrote:
I'd be surprised if no hardware acceleration was needed...
It is not needed though it is used if available. They got help from their Xgl+Compiz+Glitz guy David Reveman. Here is Miguel de Icaza describing the development decisions some more... "The other consideration to move away from C# to C at the time had to do with the early conversations with David Reveman who wanted to hardware accelerate this. The idea was to turn the Silverlight high-level operations into a scene description that we could transfer from the client applications directly onto the compositing manager (On modern X installations this is what actually puts the bits on the screen and what has enabled all those spicy effects like the rotating cube). The idea here is that the Silverlight client could detect if it was running under a compositing manager that offered rendering on the server and it would off-load all the rendering to the layer that can talk directly to the OpenGL hardware. " Vlad _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
