I don't know exactly what happened between Xamarin and Unity but I'm surprised they haven't gotten to an agreement. I would imagine it's in Xamarins favor to have such a high profile project using Mono successfully.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Bob Summerwill <b...@summerwill.net> wrote: > > Unity contains a fork of Mono-2.6 which they signed a commercial license > with Novell for, back in ~2009. Rather than signing a new commercial > license with Xamarin to get the latest-and-greatest Mono into Unity3D, so > that Unity3D developers could join the delightful world of C# 5.0, with the > potential to leverage PCLs, SGen, async, NuGet etc, and being able to > participate in the .NET open source world, they have decided to make > ANOTHER .NET runtime, which will be commercial only. > > Unity3D developers (like me in my day-job) are stuck in a C# ghetto on > their old Mono-2.6 fork (https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/mono). > > The IL2CPP technology is fairly interesting, and might be open sourced in > the future. > > The Unity3D engine is obviously proprietary, but it would be lovely to be > able to share components between Unity3D and the rest of the .NET world. > The easiest way for that to happen would be for Unity to sign a new deal > with Xamarin, and to focus their efforts on their differentiating factor - > the game technology. Instead, they are making another .NET platform. > > Those links show the detail of that, for anybody who is interested. > > > Cheers, > Bob > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Andres G. Aragoneses <kno...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 27/08/14 08:07, Bob Summerwill wrote: >> >>> >>> Video of the session on Unity's work-in-progress IL2PP technology: >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfa9ILwlsFw >>> >>> And see also >>> http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/05/20/the-future-of-scripting-in-unity/ >>> >>> This is their alternative to signing a new licensing deal... >>> >> >> Mono is open source, IL2CPP is not. >> >> So I'm guessing you mean "an alternative licensing deal"... ;) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mono-devel-list mailing list >> Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list >> > > > > -- > b...@summerwill.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list > > -- Giuliano Barberi
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