[Mono-dev] Mono 2.0 Preview 1 is out!!

[Dan Kegel]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com> wrote:
> Ah, this is very interesting.   You are running Paint.NET on Windows
> with Mono.   This is fascinating, because it never occurred to me.
>
> I started on a different direction, since Paint.NET contained a lot of
> calls to Win32, I started porting the code to Linux and replacing the
> SystemLayer.dll code with code that worked on Unix.

This caught my attention.   If Paint.NET uses lots of Win32 calls,
but can be made to run on Mono on Windows, then it would
be interesting to see if it ran on Mono on Wine.
That could open up a lot of doors.

Wine's gdiplus is becoming much more complete lately,
so this might not be as crazy at it sounds.
- Dan