Hi there, Within the last week there has been talk about a Mono Stack on Monologue and Planet.Gnome.
Judging from http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/tmp/two-stacks.png the Mono stack seem to consist of various libraries like Mono.Cairo, Novell. Directory.Ldap, Mono.Data.DB2Client, Mono.Posix, Gtk, Pango etc. I think it is a very good idea that many of these are using the Mono namespace. That at least makes me think that the included technology is a preferred technology when developing for Linux with Mono. It would be nice if we could namespace all of the technologies supposed to be part of the Mono stack, so we don't run into the C library problem: For newbies it is not obvious which XML library to use with GNOME since libxml isn't very descriptive. Was it called Gnome.XML it would be quite obvious on the other hand. Why not namespace things that are part of the mono stack, like Gtk#, as Mono.Gtk or Mono.UI.Gtk (or similar) or Evolution# as Mono.Desktop. DataServer (someone can probably find a more appropriate name). Then we also get rid of the # naming scheme. Maybe it is also a good idea discussing what the Mono stack should consist of and how it should be namespaced. For instance bluetooth support could go in Mono.Hardware.IR.Bluetooth This means that people who wants to add bluetooth bindings today can work with the Mono community to create a good API/binding with the goal of being a part of the (official) Mono stack. That way we get "official" Mono approved assemblies which have went though API review, instead of 1000 different weirdly named assemblies (MyCode.LibBF for instance) that might or might not be preferred when developing for Linux. Maybe we should create a Mono Stack discussion group who could try laying out what a Mono stack should include and now it should be organized and what underlying technologies it should use. Then it will be easier to contribute for people interesting in working on the Mono stack. Just a thought, Kenneth _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list