On Thursday 20 July 2006 16:31, 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. > > Jeff >
Base C# support is pretty good in Mono, but you still have to be quite careful when creating a cross-platform application with it. Microsoft's version implements a number of libraries that still are not quite as well implemented in Mono (if at all). The toolkit libraries (Windows Forms, to the latest stuff with Vista) are a bit of a moving target. Plus, the .Net platform still lets developers interact with COM objects and other Windows-only code. Just because the GUI is C# does not mean that it does not have a number of Windows-only dependencies, unless it was implemented with portability in-mind. - 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
