On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 17:31 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Piet Delaney wrote: > > I wonder if Microsoft is providing the "big challenge" to porting the > > same GUI to linux. The world really doesn't need yet another Java > > language. Gosling is a Genius, I studied his X11 News Server enough > > to know first hand. Microsoft lost in court with their violating the > > Java standards and C sharp seems to be just another stratagy to their > > bizarre attempt to world domination (Like the SCO mess). > > Runtime dynamic bytecode languages -- Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, ... -- > do seem to be all the rage. > > As DaveM noted, though, C# is fully supported under Linux. > > Or maybe they could go for Gtk+, which has successfully been used to > maintain complex GUIs apps on both Windows and Linux. GIMP is the most > notable example, but use of Gtk+, GLib, and mingw has meant that you can > build Linux-ish apps on Windows without nasty porting layers like Cygwin.
Perhaps, but my experience with GTK has been that it's difficult to get installed right if you put it on /usr/local. I tried compiling ethereal for our platform and it needed GTK and a series of other libraries. I suspect it's likely a major effort to migrate from a Microsoft C sharp environment to GTK. -piet > > Jeff > > -- Piet Delaney BlueLane Teck W: (408) 200-5256; [EMAIL PROTECTED] H: (408) 243-8872; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
