Hello, > I look forward to Mono development over time. I do think it is an > exciting framework. My experience is from the embedded world. My > engineers don't use Python with Gtk+. We use Gtk+ and Gtkmm. My > concern is for the overall user experience. I come from a world of > our own in-house kernel and rootstrap. My kernel is written in ARM > assembly. All of my drivers from I2C to USB are written in ARM > assembly. So as I transition my team's products to the Gnu/Linux and > Gnome platform, the overall user experience should not regress. That > is my gatekeeper in a way. > > You have to weigh the pros and cons of cost as well. Do I throw more > money at more expensive processors, more memory, and more flash just > so that software performance doesn't regress? Or do I compromize and > stick with native for now, keep the price down and allow third party > use of frameworks like Mono or Python and see it evolve over time. > That is my balance. I think it is a fair one.
It is a fair one. Our difference of opinion is that we are probably looking at different sides of the embedded world. "Embedded" can mean a million different things. Mono has been successfully used in embedded systems of different sorts. In the particular context of Gnome and Mono, I assumed you were talking about Maemo which is probably the high profile user of Gnome today on an small device, and on Maemo Mono is just a fine solution. Miguel. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
