Mono & SourceGear Move Forward

Posted by Hemos on Thursday June 12, 2003 @01:51AM from the partnering-together dept.

miguel writes "The Mono project keeps evolving and is quickly becoming a mature platform for running .NET applications on Linux. SourceGear and Ximian have entered into a partnership to make their .NET-based Vault client software available to Linux and Unix users by implementing the missing web services support in Mono. The formal announcement is here and a developer overview is here. OpenLink has also contributed the functionality to turn Wine into a library that Mono is using to implement the System.Windows.Forms namespace. Another recent progress bit is the fact that Mono can run Eclipse with the IKVM Java VM for .NET"

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Re:I knew it! by The+Bungi · 2003-06-12 07:50 · Score: 4, Interesting

But now they say they will use Wine. What a crock of shit! If .NET is crossplatform then so is MS Word!
Did you RTFA? They are using Wine to implement the forms package only. The rest of the non Win32-specific stuff runs without Wine just fine. There's even bindings for GTK if you're not interested in the full forms package.
Just another "Oh, Ximian/Miguel/et.al are in bed with Microsoft, they suck" uninformed post.