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New Mono Roadmap, DotGNU 0.1 On CD

Posted by timothy on from the co-option-option dept.

msh104 writes "The Mono project just released a nice status update for Mono. They also preview a roadmap for what the future will be like. It's quite nice to read if you want to find out if writing .Net programs for Linux will have a future for you. The Mono roadmap is available here." And gibbon writes "The DotGNU Project announced the availability of the DotGNU 0.1 CD-ROM release. It runs on many platforms and the CD contains documentation, packages for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and MS Windows. It is now possible to use the base class libraries and XML. System.Windows.Forms and the web services are coming along well, too. The announcement contains more information and download links."

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  1. Re:'Splain it to me, Lucy... by avdi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because a) Mono is an implementation of the open ECMA-standard components of .NET, done without any knowledge of MS's implementation; and b) Mono is much more likely to help than to hinder MS, at least in the short term.

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  2. Re:Windows.Forms by bizcoach · · Score: 3, Informative
    it is still not clear to me if Windows.Forms is going to be more mature (implement more of the Microsoft namespaces correctly) in the future

    The DotGNU project is 100% committed to making Windows.Forms mature. We're even offering significant cash prizes as an additional incentive to help move this forward as fast as possible.

  3. Re:Mono VS DotGNU from a commercial sense by miguel · · Score: 3, Informative

    Two lies above:

    * There were never any Windows.Forms cooperation plans. Each group has chosen a different implementation path.

    * We never pulled Windows.Forms out of Mono, we continue to develop it.

    Your conspiracy theory on the marketability of Gtk# is pure nonsense. We develop Gtk# to build Gnome applications, we have no choice if we want to leverage all the platform code available.

    We develop Windows.Forms and other APIs to remain compatible with code that people develop on Windows, and move it to Linux. As simple as that: Mono is not only a great platform to create *new* software with Unix-isms, it is also a platform to enable the growth of Linux by bringing the Windows people over.

    Miguel