[Mono-dev] Mono's future

[Rodrigo Kumpera]

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:45 AM, James Mansion
<james at mansionfamily.plus.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:56:20 +0100, Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Solaris remains a dying unix that it's becoming increasingly irrelevant.
>
> I'm not sure that's a very sensible view, given that a) Oracle have it now
> and b) the standards of engineering in it are so different from those in
> Linux.  I'm hoping for a resurgence. ;-)
>
> I'm not sure its becoming any more irrelevant if you actually care about
> data integrity and support.  I suppose the popularity of 'databases' with
> questionable transactional integrity and durability shows I might be in
> the minority, which seems unfortunate, but there you go.
>

I'm sorry for my unfortunate comment, what I meant is that running mono
on a solaris box makes less sense than running on linux given hardware
and support costs. If some shops want to do it, I'm happy for them to be
using mono. ;)

But, anyway, we have no plans into making solaris maintainers life any
harder that it already is, in fact, they are more than welcome to upstream
their changes and shine some light on how some of our direction changes
affect them - so they can be course corrected.

Been portable to windows/linux/osx helps other OSs a lot given those three
differ more than they share in common.
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