Hello there, just to make think clear; I don't 'hate' Mono or despise its usage in any way. I just think that it would make sense to have some Mono-only libraries available for the whole Gnome-stack.
Cheers, Raphael 2009/6/27 Jiří Zárevúcky <[email protected]> > 2009/6/27 Yu Feng <[email protected]>: > > On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 08:03 +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote: > >> > >> 4. Port Tomboy as a show-case project port > >> > > > > 4 seems to be very fun; how large is the codebase of tomboy? > > > > BTW: What is the largest show-case project driven by VALA, excluding > > vala itself? Here I am not limiting within project ported from mono. > > > > I'm not sure any "show-case port" is a good idea. The differences and > comparison can be written down in a single document. > > Regardless the potential advantages of two directly comparable > project, imagine what would it cause in a larger scale. gnote is > already seen as a "good" counterpart to an "evil" project in the eyes > of almost religionistic mono-haters and it is a denial of Tomboy's > actual achievement. Imagine that someone would copy your original cool > project just because he doesn't like the language. I'm sure it would > make you angry. > > If some of the Vala community try to make it some kind of > "replacement" to Mono platform (which itself is a stupid idea) the > earlier noted group would immediately make it to be some kind of > "saviour that shall release us from the hands of all evil (Mono, > Microsoft, Novell)". That could possibly result in a complete > alienation of Vala and Mono communities. > > Vala must by no means accept any role in the "struggle" (more like a > series of irrational personal insults in my opinion) that is taking > place between the Mono community and those who are not willing to > accept their freedom of choice. It would only hurt the project. > > Well, so much for my opinions on this matter. > > -- Jury > _______________________________________________ > Vala-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list >
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