[Mono-dev] Arguing for reconsideration of WONTFIX status of 425512

[Jérémie Laval]

There is a difference between implementing a public API used by lot of
people and implementing low-level internals that 1/ you aren't supposed to
know in the first place, 2/ are used by 2-3 projects that could fix the bug
with a two lines change if they cared about Mono.

--
Jérémie Laval
jeremie.laval at gmail.com
http://garuma.wordpress.com


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Stifu <stifu at free.fr> wrote:

>
> Your opinion makes sense, but then, why bother with Windows.Forms (or other
> things like pseudo-Windows registry support), for example? The Mono team
> seems a bit torn between adding "hacky" stuff for the sake of compatibility
> (note: I'm not bashing, I rely on the Windows.Forms support of Mono
> myself),
> and not trying to match .NET when easily possible (like this post from
> yesterday shows: http://www.go-mono.com/forums/).
>
>
> Jérémie LAVAL wrote:
> >
> > However,  I think Mono isn't meant to be a *reimplementation* of .NET,
> > it's
> > an implementation of the *specifications* defined at ECMA/ISO.
> >
> > Now, if developers are using implementation specific details they are
> > shooting themselves in the foot and should go fix their mess themselves,
> > not
> > blame Mono for it.
> >
> > Again, just my humble opinion.
> >
> > --
> > Jérémie Laval
> > jeremie.laval at gmail.com
> > http://garuma.wordpress.com
> >
>
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