It seems there is also an offering from nevron https://www.nevron.com
> On 30 Nov 2014, at 15:30, Edward Ned Harvey (mono) > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Terry Reese [mailto:[email protected]] >> >> Thanks -- I'd looked at the Xamarin forms, but I'm only interested in client >> development -- no iOS or Android, so that seems non-optimal at this point. >> The XWT sounds interesting, but I couldn't tell if it was actually an active >> project. Most of the discussion about it has been around 2012, though I see >> there have been some recent check-in on Git, so maybe. I had the same >> question with the ETO project. These seem like one off efforts, and I was >> something that was actually being baked into mono and actually maintained >> (not like Windows.Forms has been). > > I'm not sure how "active" a project needs to be - I am a maintainer on > rdiff-backup, and nobody's committed anything in like 3 years because there's > so little demand for any changes. Basically, it's stable and very little > need to continue working on it. > > Xwt and Eto, however, are a little bit different. It's understandable that > OS interfaces will change over time, some development effort will always be > needed to maintain, but there's no sign of falling below THAT threshold right > now. > > Xwt is currently used by Xamarin.Studio / Monodevelop, which suggests quite a > bit of feature capability and stability and compatibility. However, they're > moving away from it because they need more control, available by using the > native toolkits directly. In my opinion, that's not condemning to Xwt - It's > an indicator that they have sufficient development effort available as to > maintain the separate projects for each platform, but for those who can't or > don't want to afford the extra effort, Xwt could still be useful as long as > it does what you want & need it to do. > > I don't know what projects out there use Eto, but it seems to be bigger, more > robust and more actively maintained than Xwt. > > FWIW, I have not yet used either one personally. It's on the to-do list, to > evaluate them. > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
