On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 20:39, Ferguson, Neale wrote: > For those who are interested in C#, there is an open source project known as > "mono" > which has the compiler and runtime compoents. There is even a visual basic > library > which some people are using to run VB apps (I don't so I don't know how > complete or > good it is). Anyway, I contributed the necessary code to support the S390 > interfaces > (i.e. the "trampoline" code to implement the conventions of Linux on S/390). > If you > go to "http://www.go-mono.com/download"; you can get the source tar balls (in > the latest > snapshots). Use the instructions foundat: > "http://www.gnome-db.org/~gonzalo/mono/README.building"; > to create executables. I'm attempting to build an RPM that will contain a > ready-to-run > version. The project is only at the 0.16 level so there's still a lot of > work to do.
Thats cool. There is something excruciatingly funny about Microsoft .NET compatibility existing as free software and java only in a proprietary form. Alan
