Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-21 Thread Murray Cumming
Mono has been successfully used in embedded systems of different sorts. Examples? Or are we just talking about some guy who got it working once? In the particular context of Gnome and Mono, I assumed you were talking about Maemo which is probably the high profile user of Gnome today on an

Save a kitten today (was Re: What about Embedded?)

2006-07-21 Thread Vincent Untz
On jeu, 2006-07-20 at 23:24 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: I totally agree but wouldn't it be better to use native languages that offer all this like the D language (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/). It's cool to read about various languages, but really, this is off-topic on this list. We're in

Crush the political bullshit [Was: What about Embedded?]

2006-07-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Philip Van Hoof In an opensource setting, we should CRUSH political bullshit and overthrow it with technical superiority. We are by the way NOT doing that, and in stead failing TECHNICALLY at the exact same POLITICAL problems companies are also facing. Philip, Firstly, what we are

Some Vala ideas (Was: What about Embedded?)

2006-07-21 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 11:23 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 07:07 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote: You might be interested in looking at Vala http://www.paldo.org/vala/ . It's not ready for production use yet but it's available for testing now and with feedback [hint ;) ]

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-21 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Mono has been successfully used in embedded systems of different sorts. Examples? Or are we just talking about some guy who got it working once? Confidential, paying commercial customers. All we can say is that the PowerPC port was paid by them. Maemo are not using Python yet as

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-21 Thread Who
On 7/20/06, David Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tor, 20 07 2006 kl. 23:24 +0100, skrev Jamie McCracken: The D language offers the best of all worlds IMO *without* compromising on speed, resource usage or bloat. It would be madness to use a VM instead! (of course its not as integrated

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Indeed, I find it ironic that in light of recent moves to expand the Gnome tent to include Mobile and Embedded devices as at GUADEC this year, that there is at the same time an effort to push MONO into the stack. At what price are these moves being made or considered? Like Havoc

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 14:46 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote: Hello, Indeed, I find it ironic that in light of recent moves to expand the Gnome tent to include Mobile and Embedded devices as at GUADEC this year, that there is at the same time an effort to push MONO into the stack. At what

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 23:24 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: And this is why GNOME should accept and go for higher programming languages and modern development techniques. I totally agree but wouldn't it be better to use native languages that offer all this like the D language

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread David Nielsen
tor, 20 07 2006 kl. 23:24 +0100, skrev Jamie McCracken: The D language offers the best of all worlds IMO *without* compromising on speed, resource usage or bloat. It would be madness to use a VM instead! (of course its not as integrated into Gnome yet and lacks an IDE but if someone puts

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Jamie McCracken
Philip Van Hoof wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 23:24 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: And this is why GNOME should accept and go for higher programming languages and modern development techniques. I totally agree but wouldn't it be better to use native languages that offer all this like the

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Jamie McCracken
David Nielsen wrote: tor, 20 07 2006 kl. 23:24 +0100, skrev Jamie McCracken: The D language offers the best of all worlds IMO *without* compromising on speed, resource usage or bloat. It would be madness to use a VM instead! (of course its not as integrated into Gnome yet and lacks an IDE

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 00:03 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: Philip Van Hoof wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 23:24 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: D *easily* beats mono and java in every benchmark so runtime optimisations count for very little here.

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Cody Russell
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 00:10 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: ... in about 10 years, once D exits beta and someone sits down to write a proper IDE, the bindings, etc.. D is already stable enough - yes its officially still in beta but nothing has changed there and people are building apps

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Jamie McCracken
Cody Russell wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 00:10 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: ... in about 10 years, once D exits beta and someone sits down to write a proper IDE, the bindings, etc.. D is already stable enough - yes its officially still in beta but nothing has changed there and people are

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Cody Russell
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 00:31 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: Cody Russell wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 00:10 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: ... in about 10 years, once D exits beta and someone sits down to write a proper IDE, the bindings, etc.. D is already stable enough - yes its

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Hi; On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 00:10 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: the tools we want, the Mono maintainers care about GNOME and as an added bonus we get to market GNOME to all the college students who are currently being trained with .NET in mind. All too true - its why we need volunteers to

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Jamie McCracken
Emmanuele Bassi wrote: Hi; On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 00:10 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: the tools we want, the Mono maintainers care about GNOME and as an added bonus we get to market GNOME to all the college students who are currently being trained with .NET in mind. All too true - its why

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 00:35 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: the rationale for some of their choices is risible (uttons are there to pass on user events not executing actions? key bindings and composite widgets anyone?). I haven't at all investigated DUI. I did look at the D specification.

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, I look forward to Mono development over time. I do think it is an exciting framework. My experience is from the embedded world. My engineers don't use Python with Gtk+. We use Gtk+ and Gtkmm. My concern is for the overall user experience. I come from a world of our own in-house

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Lluis Sanchez
The reality in this story is that application developers don't want to care about this. This is why a lot of them prefer to develop using virtual machines. And this is why GNOME should accept and go for higher programming languages and modern development techniques. I totally

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-20 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Don, 2006-07-20 at 23:24 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: I totally agree but wouldn't it be better to use native languages that offer all this like the D language (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/). No one has ever justified why we need a VM given all its disadvantages (speed - especially

What about Embedded?

2006-07-19 Thread Sean Kelley
Indeed, I find it ironic that in light of recent moves to expand the Gnome tent to include Mobile and Embedded devices as at GUADEC this year, that there is at the same time an effort to push MONO into the stack. At what price are these moves being made or considered? Like Havoc said, innovation

Re: What about Embedded?

2006-07-19 Thread Ross Burton
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 07:03 -0500, Sean Kelley wrote: Indeed, I find it ironic that in light of recent moves to expand the Gnome tent to include Mobile and Embedded devices as at GUADEC this year, that there is at the same time an effort to push MONO into the stack. At what price are these