On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, George Birbilis wrote:
> > And why should we do so? I still don't see what .Net offers
> > what FPC can't do better without adding another dependency on
> > Microsoft.
>
> Because there will be no more Win32 API use from Microsoft in the future.
Given that in Vista about 40 out of 2000 core libraries are .NET,
and that none of the Office suite is written in .NET, I guess
that is a far far future. If ever. But that aside:
Basically what you are saying is that we need .NET because
Microsoft forces everyone to use it on Windows.
There is no problem with accepting that, but at least one
should be honest about it, and not try to desperately find
any pseudo-reasons why .NET is a technically good and sound
architecture...
I run SuSE Linux. SuSE was bought by Novell.
Novell has also bought Ximian, which make Mono and Evolution
on top of GTK. This is immediatly visible:
- KDE support is going down the drain.
All previously SuSE supported KDE development is cut short in favour
of GNome, despite the architectural superiority of KDE.
- The new management tools ("ZenManager" etc.) run in Mono.
They are a disaster. I switched to smart package management because of it.
(written, if I'm correct, in Python ;) )
The point being that big companies push you in the direction which
is in their interest, not because it is necessarily better from a
technical point of view.
Once more, no problem with that - business is business - but be honest about it.
Michael.
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