[SLUG] Mono and GNOME [Was: New Money-Management Software Option]
> > Controversially, it's based on Mono. Hmm. :-) > > I was reading an article the other day (from somewhere on the OnLamp site) > that implied pretty strongly that Mono / C# would be the preferred > development platform for Gnome 3.0. Is that correct? Though Edd (Dumbill, the author) is certainly a GNOME developer, he nor anyone else in The GNOME Project knows what "3.0" will be at all. There are no plans whatsoever at this stage - the only thing we have general agreement on is that 3.0 will mark the API/ABI compatibility break point, which will probably just mean that we fully remove everything we deprecated during the 2.x releases. :-) Beyond the current crop off applications built on Mono, I don't know what its future will hold in GNOME. At some stage, we will definitely want to start using managed code (Python, Java, Mono, whatever) in GNOME "official" software releases... Well, if nothing else is certain, I know for sure that there be a lot of debate. :-) - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norwayhttp://2004.guadec.org/ "They are, as I told Telsa, all very small cheques. Indeed our cheques only come in one size, otherwise cheque books would be far too hard to manufacture." - Alan Cox -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mono and GNOME [Was: New Money-Management Software Option]
Jeff Waugh wrote: At some stage, we will definitely want to start using managed code (Python, Java, Mono, whatever) in GNOME "official" software releases... sorry I haven't heard that term before... what is 'managed code' and what can it do for me? dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mono and GNOME [Was: New Money-Management Software Option]
> Jeff Waugh wrote: > > At some stage, we will definitely want to start using managed code > > (Python, Java, Mono, whatever) in GNOME "official" software releases... > > sorry I haven't heard that term before... what is 'managed code' and what > can it do for me? "Managed code" is a .NET buzzwordlet that has seeped into commonish language lingo. It basically means code executed in a virtual machine environment, interpreted, or (all the more often these days) somewhere in between. So, it encompasses Java, Mono and Microsoft's CLR, Python, Perl, Parrot, etc. It buys you everything that the higher-than-C-level-langauges you know from the *nix world usually would (or arguably more, if you're coming from the MS defined perspective). http://www.google.com.au/search?q=define:Managed+code - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norwayhttp://2004.guadec.org/ We're passe with class, eh? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mono and GNOME [Was: New Money-Management Software Option]
Sounds like MS marketing speak for a VM (virtual machine). Type it into google, click I'm feeling lucky and guess where you go. Stu On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 08:08, Dave Kempe wrote: > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > At some stage, we will definitely want to > > start using managed code (Python, Java, Mono, whatever) in GNOME "official" > > software releases... > > sorry I haven't heard that term before... what is 'managed code' and > what can it do for me? > > dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mono and GNOME [Was: New Money-Management Software Option]
Dave Kempe wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: At some stage, we will definitely want to start using managed code (Python, Java, Mono, whatever) in GNOME "official" software releases... sorry I haven't heard that term before... what is 'managed code' and what can it do for me? "Managed code" is the Microsoft .NET term for code which runs in the .NET virtual machine. It's managed in the sense that you can't do your own memory allocation / deallocation (it's garbage collected), and you have a fairly configurable security framework imposed upon you. Microsoft seems to have a penchant for making up new terminology as frequently as possible. Another example is "Service Orientated Architecute", which means that your application uses Web Services, which means it uses some form of XML RPC. Cheers, Mikal -- Michael Still ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | "All my life I've had one dream, http://www.stillhq.com| to achieve my many goals" UTC + 11 |-- Homer Simpson -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mono and GNOME [Was: New Money-Management Software Option]
> Microsoft seems to have a penchant for making up new terminology as > frequently as possible. Another example is "Service Orientated > Architecute", which means that your application uses Web Services, which > means it uses some form of XML RPC. I like "remoting". :-) - Jeff -- GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norwayhttp://2004.guadec.org/ "One World, one Web, one Browser." - Microsoft promotion "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
