Marc Haisenko wrote:
the WINE dependency, while dotGNU's System.Windows.Forms ran everywhere where dotGNU was supported.
We still needed libffi and X11 (or win32 GDI+) to run winforms.
There's a video floating around where (I think) Gopal shows a .NET application running on dotGNU on a Simputer (an Indian low-budget PDA; note the nice indian accents of the voices you hear in the video :-)=)
http://t3.dotgnu.info/code/Dotgnu_Simputer_divx.avi 3rd december 2004, Linux Bangalore/2004. I borrowed a Simputer on 1st and in less than two days built & installed pnet on the handheld (ported is too weird a term for that). And then, it just worked :) The voices you hear in the background are Deepak Saxena, Scott Wheeler and Karunakar (hanging out @ the kde stall) - I'm pretty sure only karunakar & me have 'indian' accents :D
So if you need to do GUI development I'd recommend dotGNU to you. Mono's SWF isn't as mature, and if you need to fix bugs you'll have a harder time to do so in Mono as their SWF code is not so good, IMHO.
We're mostly a volunteer project, mono is run by Ximian/Novell. They have management for you to talk to, we haven't got a formal structure for all that. OTOH, they don't have things like http://t3.dotgnu.info/blog/dotgnu/when-i-am-missing.html happening. If you have a bit of resources to help, but not enough to buy help, I'd know which project to pick. After all, we all sleep happier when people pick whatever works :) Cheers, Gopal _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list [email protected] http://dotgnu.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
