Robert, I do agree about the integrated tooling (of which I've always known). But I do not believe such a separation, or a "spin-off", as you say, is justified. Android and iOS are just another two platforms Mono runs on. Yes, they have their peculiarities, just as any other platform has but I don't believe this means a new name is required. Should we give a different name to each of Mono for Windows, OS X, Play Station, Wii? Does Java have a different name for each platform it runs on? What I'm saying is that I think Mono for iOS, or Mono for Android, is still Mono, and no integrated tooling (useless without the Mono core) changes that. About licensing, there is nothing wrong with the Mono versions for some platforms to be non-LGPL or even non open-sourced. If a platform has a problem with some license, or the Xamarin people do not wish to open all of their code, that's fine. But not even mentioning "Mono" - I think not. I really hope that by "there is no rational reason to be concerned that Xamarin would drop Mono anytime soon" you meant "there is no rational reason to be concerned that Xamarin would ever drop Mono".
knocte, In the Unity3D case Mono is only a part of the whole system, it provides just the scripting. The Unity engine is not based on it, it uses it - I believe there is a great difference. That is, it works for them fine I and I'm glad this is yet another area Mono performs great at but unlike Xamarin's products here Mono is far from irreplaceable. They could've used Python or Lua or any other widely used in games scripting language. Besides, Unity3D is not a product that was "born" out of Mono and its community, it is an independent product that makes use of another good product. So it's fair that the Unity3D people do not put "Mono" in the names of their products. About this mailing list, I had already made it very obvious that I think this concerns the Mono project as a whole, and therefore its community, also which I believe Xamarin to be a part of. I'd just like to be sure, as a Mono user and as the maintainer of a Mono-based open source project, that Xamarin are determined to remain the invaluable part of that community they are now. -- View this message in context: http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/Xamarin-2-0-concern-tp4658722p4658738.html Sent from the Mono - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
