Hi Oleg,

I see you're still a lurker. :-)

J#: I don't know. It looks like you need a Visual Studio .NET license
which I don't have. Was this what nfop was done with? I didn't look.
C#: I don't have time to help with such an endeavour in the near future.
That's a huge task. And the Java version takes effort enough at the
moment.

I know people who would be very interested to run FOP on .NET but for
the moment I'm only going to take the "easy road" via IKVM so see where
I get. But I guess one could think about creating additional source code
in C# or any other .NET language to provide additional features that
might be difficult with IKVM. Since IKVM has problems with AWT it might
make sense to write a renderer in C# to do direct printing, for example.
But my priorities are with PDF and PS at the moment.

On 22.11.2005 10:27:09 Oleg Tkachenko wrote:
> Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> 
> > I think having the opportunity to provide a .NET version of FOP would
> > widen the number of potential users considerably especially since
> > to my knowledge there's no usable open source .NET FO implementation out
> > there. Depending on the license situation (IKVM is BSD but GNU Classpath
> > is LGPL) we could even think about distributing .NET binaries.
> 
> I think that's a good move and definitely would be well accepted in the 
> .NET community. I could help you on that.
> And besides IKVM what do yo uthink about other options - using J# or 
> even porting to C#?
> -- 
> Oleg



Jeremias Maerki

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