As http://www.mono-project.com/WinForms and http://www.winehq.org/?issue=230#Mono%20Ditching%20Wine explain, Mono ditched Wine about four years ago for some very good reasons, and has been happily making progress on its own without worrying about Wine.
In those four years, Wine has matured to the point where it is now just starting to run nontrivial .net 2 apps using Microsoft's .net 2 runtime package ( see http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2008-April/064614.html ). It even has a fairly capable implementation of gdiplus. For the moment, Wine is happy to let people choose between Mono and MS .Net. Since most .net apps are built with Microsoft tools, they're nearly universally mixed- mode assemblies, so people will of neccessity load MS .net runtimes onto Wine. Eventually, though, we'd like to start herding everybody towards Mono, as machines without Windows licenses become more common, and Microsoft stops allowing ISVs to bundle the .net runtime with their apps. That would require adding support for mixed-mode assemblies to the Windows version of Mono. I don't know how big a job that is, but I bet it'd be a fun project for the right intern to take a whack at. (Anyone interested?) Cheers, Dan Kegel Wine 1.0 Release Manager _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list