I would just like to get some thoughts and clarifications about a few things.
1) It says SWF at end of month.. and then months of testing.. when will it
likely debut in the
standard distribution (dowload page) , and not be a cvs only?
2) It is mentioned how SWF will work on Win32, OSX and linux, is it possible
that the release that
has SWF will "for sure" have SWF working on all three Win32/Linux/OSX,
with OSX not needing X11
support .. or may it be the case that it could come out, at fisrt, not
supporting OSX?
3) No IP flames intended here (just assume there might be an issue) ...
Having been around Mono now for 2+ years, I have seen much written
about the licensing and IP issues. Let just assume for this question
that there is a possibly a MS
IP "issue" that could come along for SWF in the future. I would really
rather use GTK#
for win32/linux/OSX x-platform dev. (call it personal choice) but as we
know gtk# for
native OSX (no X11 deps.) is no where is sight. So this (above) got me
thinking -
We know a certain portion of people on/in the Mono project are MS
people (which is great,
Mono needs that), and the MS people are of course going to want SWF for
their GUI a lot of
the time? But is it not true that many others would want gtk#? and in
fact from what I see
in the demo pages, gtk# IS very popular. So I find it odd that gtk#
support for native
OSX is still perhaps completely out of sight, yet we could be close to
having SWF for
native OSX now? and there are possibly some IP issue with SWF on
linux/OSX. So the end
result of my thinking is .. is there not a disproportionate amount of
time being spent
on SWF on native OSX than gtk# on native OSX? maybe the answer is -
that i am one
of about 5 people that care about using gtk# on native OSX :(
Or perhaps SWF for native OSX came very easy? and gtk# for native OSX
is very hard to implement?
-tl
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