On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 06:15:45AM -0600, Glenn Holmer wrote: > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 20:57, houghi wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:29:19PM -0400, Cristian Rodriguez wrote: > > > Although ,I Agree with your rant, and found this sudden move to > > > MONO (.NET) or whatever very bad,disappointing, and unnecessary > > > (specially in the middle of the distro development, and having > > > previous, well tested,mature software,that works.) I think you are > > > missing the real point, it doesn't matter if the file extension is > > > pl or exe or whatever, the most important thing is **how it > > > works**. > > > > That is naturaly the first important thing. The second is some kind > > of logic and calling things *.exe points to a Microsoft enviroment, > > no matter how wrong that is. > > Can someone please explain how it makes sense to use a framework > intended for writing code that runs on multiple operating systems > (Mono) to write tools used specifically on Linux, and on a specific > distro at that? I'm a die-hard Java programmer, but I would never > consider writing a SUSE package updater in Java...
Because Novell considers / considered to some degree Mono / C# the way of doing things. Some older Novell apps (ifolder for instance) were ported towards C#. Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
