[Mono-dev] Mono for Symbian

[Mike Welham]

Hi,

> > 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.

That is not true. We have contributed back where we can.

Unfortunately the parts of our class libraries that are based on Mono
code are so different (stripping to match Compact Framework API,
offloading as much as we can to Symbian libraries, etc) that the only
contributions we can make are to things like tools (Armand's work on
Cecil comes to mind) and helping out on the mailing list.

Mike
Red Five Labs