On 2008-07-11, Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Tom Shelton peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> On 2008-07-11, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> ____/ Linonut on Friday 11 July 2008 19:11 : \____
>>>>
>>>> I'm already on fluxbox, but, like XFce, will keep using GTK. I wonder
>>>> what Stallman thinks of all this.
>>>
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/foundation-list@xxxxxxxxx/msg02625.html
>>
>> libbeagle.so is a C library - therefore, has nothing to do with Mono other
>> then the Beagle search tool calls into it for some of it's functionality. It
>> in no way is dependant on mono, afik.
>
> Try marking beagle (not libbeagle) for installation. You'll see a lot
> of libmono libraries added as dependencies.
>
As would be expected... Beagle is a mono app. libbeagle is a C library that
Beagle uses for some of it's functionality. libbeagle doesn't relay on mono.
> Okay, next. Right now, it doesn't look like Gnome-desktop depends on
> mono. If de Icaza rewrites Gnome (whether to base it on .NET or not),
> that's a big step backward for Gnome, unless they can handle it at least
> as well as the KDE team handled their rewrite.
>
1) de Icaza has no control of the Gnome foundation. He is a founding member,
does not really control it anymore. So, what he may or may not want is
irrelavant.
2) Gnome will never be based on .NET - it might however be based on Mono.
That may seem a distinction without a difference, but in fact it is not. I'm
fairly certain that they will not be as stupid as to use any of the .NET
specific portions of the mono libraries in Gnome... I would assume they will
use the Mono specific stuff, like GTK#
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Tom Shelton
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