[Mono-dev] Mono for Symbian

[Neil Cowburn]

Hey, 

> Yes, but that is a proprietary platform that people cant get.

Point taken, but it is (a variant of) Mono on Symbian. If proof was ever
needed that it can work, this would be an exemplar. 

> Yes, but unlike Mainsoft who is an active contributor to the community
> and share their bug fixes with us and are an integral part of the Mono
> community the Red Five folks have not participated or contributed back
> to Mono.

That's their choice (or maybe their VC's choice...), but I share your
view on feeding back to the community. FWIW, I think it would love to
help out on a Mono port for resource-constrained devices, be that on
embedded Linux, Symbian or Windows CE (the world I'm most familiar
with). 

-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel de Icaza [mailto:miguel at novell.com] 
Sent: 22 May 2007 21:05
To: Neil Cowburn
Cc: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Mono for Symbian

Hello,

> I'm not sure about the status of Mono on Symbian, but redfivelabs
> (http://www.redfivelabs.com/) have a port of the .NET Compact
Framework
> running on Symbian and this uses parts of Mono. 

Yes, but that is a proprietary platform that people cant get.

Yes, but unlike Mainsoft who is an active contributor to the community
and share their bug fixes with us and are an integral part of the Mono
community the Red Five folks have not participated or contributed back
to Mono.