RE: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-13 Thread Dan
ROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Junker Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 10:59 AM To: Mono List Subject: Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support This is a rather short-sighted viewpoint, I have to say. If you were talking about today, Monday April 12, 2004, then ya, sure, "if the election

Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-12 Thread Gregory Junker
This is a rather short-sighted viewpoint, I have to say. If you were talking about today, Monday April 12, 2004, then ya, sure, "if the election were today" then Windows.NET would win hands down. That's not what this project is about however. I strongly disagree with the statement "if Mono PPC do

Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-11 Thread Erik Dasque
Hi all, Developing and delivering software like Mono is not an easy task and a complex engineering project. We're committed to delivering Mono 1.0 in June and supporting the Linux x86, MacOS X platforms, have no doubt about that. As you know we also intend to provide support for Solaris and Linux

RE: Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-10 Thread Eto
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Junker Sent: April 9, 2004 10:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support I would add that "Free" software is not "free" as in &q

RE: Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-10 Thread Gregory Junker
I would add that "Free" software is not "free" as in "free beer". It is "free" as in "freedom to do what you want with it", and with freedom comes responsibility. At first glance, since I have only seen this snippet of his original post, if urgent Mac OSX support is that important to Mr. Mentzer,

RE: Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-09 Thread Gregory Junker
I would add that "Free" software is not "free" as in "free beer". It is "free" as in "freedom to do what you want with it", and with freedom comes responsibility. At first glance, since I have only seen this snippet of his original post, if urgent Mac OSX support is that important to Mr. Mentzer,

RE: Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-09 Thread Lee Malatesta
Steve Mentzer wrote: > No offense to the mono team, but you should either drop support > for PPC entirely or actually concentrate on getting it as stable > as x86/linux. I think that this is exactly what the good folks on the mono team are doing and I, for one, applaud their efforts. The mono proj

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-09 Thread George Farris
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 04:32, Joseph Bennie wrote: > >> Remember to the rest of us who are just looking > >> to be productive, we don't want to have to learn new tricks if we > >> don't have to > > > > > > Well, I have to say that this is possibly why there are so many poor > > windows applicatio

Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-09 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, > > Yes, Mono on MacOS X is not ready. We will have a proper announcement > > when it is ready for consumption. > > > > We are aware of the bugs, and the problems on the engine, you will do > > yourself a service by just waiting at this point, trying to compile > > Mono > > on MacOS is on

RE: Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-09 Thread Robert Isaacs
-Original Message- From: Steve Mentzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 1:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support On x86 hardware, I prefer windows xp/2003. Sorry, I love *nix, but linux doesn't do much for

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-09 Thread Joseph Bennie
Remember to the rest of us who are just looking to be productive, we don't want to have to learn new tricks if we don't have to Well, I have to say that this is possibly why there are so many poor windows applications that just don't understand the whole concept of multi-user. WordPerfect used

Re: [DotGNU]Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-09 Thread Norbert Bollow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi lists, (hope this does not get mis-understood... I'm not subscribed > to any of the non-mono-lists :-( although I maybe should be) > this problem I have seen with Mono and the other .NET implementations is > just

RE: Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-08 Thread Steve Mentzer
Sadly, I must agree. The mono team have made excellent progress on bringing PPC into the JIT era but. On a whim, I decided to install fedora core 1 and build mono. It built and installed without incident. Truly remarkable. I must say that I was impressed. XSP kept crashing, but that is

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-08 Thread George Farris
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 15:12, Joseph Bennie wrote: > Respect. > > We've all been there at some point. > > Don't get me started on GUI's' i don't have the time either. > > Yes i could learn QT or GTK or even one of the alternatives but i > really believe that the secret to GUI development with m

Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-08 Thread Griffin Caprio
Yes, Mono on MacOS X is not ready. We will have a proper announcement when it is ready for consumption. We are aware of the bugs, and the problems on the engine, you will do yourself a service by just waiting at this point, trying to compile Mono on MacOS is only frustrating at this time. I wish

RE: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-08 Thread Urs Muff
Balogh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 5:26 PM To: Urs Muff; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support hello, Urs Muff wrote: >I feel your pain, trust me! > >One thing I have to say: installing mono has gotten mu

RE: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-08 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, > Down the road you may be able to run gtk-sharp on Mac or Windows, or run > Windows.Forms on *nix and Mac, but I would not recommend that, since > - Gtk is the native UI platform for *nix > - Windows.Forms is the native UI platform for Windows > - and, Cocoa is the native UI platform for M

Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-08 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, > Grudgingly, I have to agree with above statement(s). Mono support for > Mac OS X/ PPC is fragile at best. I even tried to put together a page > on the basic steps ( > http://homepage.mac.com/griffincaprio/mono/RunningMonoOnMacOSX.html ), > but I have all but given up trying to maint

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-08 Thread Joseph Bennie
Respect. We've all been there at some point. Don't get me started on GUI's' i don't have the time either. Yes i could learn QT or GTK or even one of the alternatives but i really believe that the secret to GUI development with mono is a completely working System.drawing layer which on the lin

Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-08 Thread Attila Balogh
hello, a little bit further, i edited /sw/etc/mono/config, adding /sw/lib to all of the .dylibs. now if i try to mint gtk-sharp/sample/ButtonApp.exe: Unhandled Exception: System.ExecutionEngineException: No GCHandle support built-in #0: 0x0in System.Runtime.InteropServices.GCHa

RE: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-08 Thread Attila Balogh
hello, Urs Muff wrote: I feel your pain, trust me! One thing I have to say: installing mono has gotten much easier: - Install fink from fink.sourceforge.net - Make sure to be adding the unstable tree (either with Fink Commander -> Preferences -> Fink - use unstable packages - use

Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-08 Thread Benjamin Reed
Urs Muff wrote: I feel your pain, trust me! One thing I have to say: installing mono has gotten much easier: - Install fink from fink.sourceforge.net - Make sure to be adding the unstable tree (either with Fink Commander -> Preferences -> Fink - use unstable packages - use unstabl

RE: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-08 Thread Urs Muff
r. Thank you. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Griffin Caprio Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 11:24 AM To: Attila Balogh Cc: Jeffrey McManus; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support > my problem with

Re: [Mono-list] I give up / Mac OS X PPC support

2004-04-08 Thread Griffin Caprio
my problem with gtk# personally is that mac os x is not supported. although you can find people who hacked it together, if you co it from cvs, and install it, the samples don't work. i don't have a linux box, only a mac, and i would love to play with mono on it, but it's been two months now,

RE: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-08 Thread Attila Balogh
Jeffrey McManus wrote: I'm interested to know what your (and others') problems with GTK# are and what you mean by "support" -- are you finding it difficult to learn, in other words would better documentation help? Or are you finding it difficult to use, things aren't working as advertised, that ki

RE: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 09:33, Dan Winship wrote: > > If someone would actually take the time, Qt# can be used to write good > > applications. > > Then take the time. If you find any bugs in mono that keep Qt# from working, > we'll gladly accept your patches. ...and bug reports Jeff > > -- Dan

RE: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-08 Thread Dan Winship
> If someone would actually take the time, Qt# can be used to write good > applications. Then take the time. If you find any bugs in mono that keep Qt# from working, we'll gladly accept your patches. -- Dan ___ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
It falls under the LGPL Jeff On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 07:33, Timothy Parez wrote: > What license does GTK fall under? > > ___ > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > _

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-08 Thread Timothy Parez
What license does GTK fall under? ___ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-08 Thread Jonathan Pryor
Below... On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 02:44, Marcus wrote: > On Thursday 08 April 2004 1:31 am, Michael J. Ryan wrote: > > Also have to mention that GTK# can be used on the windows > > side. You have things slightly confused. > First Qt was "bad" because it wasn't GPL. It wasn't bad because it wasn't

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-08 Thread Giuseppe Greco
> It's no use building 50 wrappers for GUI toolkits, we need a single > stable 100% working toolkit. I agree... > A GUI toolkit will only succeed if > > - It runs on both Windows & *Nix platforms without restrictions > - It can be easely installed by grandpa and grandma > - There is a good GUI f

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-08 Thread Timothy Parez
It's no use building 50 wrappers for GUI toolkits, we need a single stable 100% working toolkit. A GUI toolkit will only succeed if - It runs on both Windows & *Nix platforms without restrictions - It can be easely installed by grandpa and grandma - There is a good GUI form editor available (thin

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-08 Thread Peter Dennis Bartok
Joop, Marcus, et al, I understand your frustrations. Yes, you are right, all the file/networking/HTML/etc. is there, and GUI is still in it's infancy. IMO the reasons are that first, it's often much easier to write these lower level APIs, and second, GUI APIs are usually layered on top of almost e

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-08 Thread Giuseppe Greco
In 1997 I worked for a company that was developing a broadcast platform, and we used to develop in C++ on Linux with Qt... Even if I prefer GTK+, I must admit that Qt was a very nice portable C++ framework. Furthermore, even if GTK+ is one of my preferred frameworks, I tend to avoid Gtk# (which is

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-07 Thread Joop
t to use, things aren't working as advertised, that kind of thing? Jeffrey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marcus Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-07 Thread Marcus
On Friday 09 April 2004 1:35 am, George Farris wrote: > Nonsense. Mono and Gtk# work extremely well today. I know, I've built a > fully functional app (Gfax) and all one has to do is look at a few other > apps such as F-Spot, Muine, Monodoc and Monodevelop to realize this. If someone would actual

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-07 Thread Marcus
On Thursday 08 April 2004 1:31 am, Michael J. Ryan wrote: > Also have to mention that GTK# can be used on the windows > side. First Qt was "bad" because it wasn't GPL. Now it's "bad" because it's GPL. I don't get it. ___ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PR

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-07 Thread George Farris
Nonsense. Mono and Gtk# work extremely well today. I know, I've built a fully functional app (Gfax) and all one has to do is look at a few other apps such as F-Spot, Muine, Monodoc and Monodevelop to realize this. On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 23:05, Joop wrote: > Hi lists, (hope this does not get mis-un

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-07 Thread Michael J. Ryan
Also have to mention that GTK# can be used on the windows side. Giuseppe Greco wrote: Hi Marcus, Of course, Mono is still under development, but the most important components are there, and they work. Here, at Agamura, we are developing a sophisticated online gaming delivery network on Linux with

RE: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-07 Thread Jeffrey McManus
t kind of thing? Jeffrey > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marcus > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Mono-list]

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-07 Thread Joop
Hi lists, (hope this does not get mis-understood... I'm not subscribed to any of the non-mono-lists :-( although I maybe should be) this problem I have seen with Mono and the other .NET implementations is just the problem the original poster poses. There is not "real commitment to"/"clear road-a

Re: [Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-07 Thread Giuseppe Greco
Hi Marcus, Of course, Mono is still under development, but the most important components are there, and they work. Here, at Agamura, we are developing a sophisticated online gaming delivery network on Linux with Mono, and up to now, we have had just few problems... Furthermore, when we report a bu

[Mono-list] I give up

2004-04-07 Thread Marcus
After trying to work with Mono, Portable.NET, Qt, and KDE, I've realized that I'm fighting a battle that I cannot win. Mono supports Gtk# (and GTK+) to the exclusion of any other platform. Portable.NET is behind their own SWF implementation, but at least they are a bit more agnostic. The Qt/KDE