[Mono-list] I give up

[George Farris]

Nonsense. Mono and Gtk# work extremely well today.  I know, I've built a
fully functional app (Gfax) and all one has to do is look at a few other
apps such as F-Spot, Muine, Monodoc and Monodevelop to realize this.

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 23:05, Joop wrote:
> Hi lists, (hope this does not get mis-understood... I'm not subscribed 
> to any of the non-mono-lists :-( although I maybe should be)
> this problem I have seen with Mono and the other .NET implementations is 
> just the problem the original poster poses. There is not "real 
> commitment to"/"clear road-a-head for"/"direction in" supporting the GUI 
> side of things. The GUI is left far behind compared to the 
> file/networking/HTML/server etc. etc. support in these .NET 
> implementations. This is why it is not yet fully usable to all those 
> developers that only want to create a 'simple' GUI application. Hope 
> this will change soon as I do have the desire to go an write some nice 
> programs in .NET. I just don't have the need to all the 
> file/networking/HTML/server stuff yet.
> wkr,
> Joop Zonnet
> 
> Giuseppe Greco wrote:
> > Hi Marcus,
> > 
> > Of course, Mono is still under development, but the most
> > important components are there, and they work. Here, at
> > Agamura, we are developing a sophisticated online gaming
> > delivery network on Linux with Mono, and up to now, we
> > have had just few problems... Furthermore, when we report
> > a bug, it is always fixed in a short time!
> > 
> > Mono's implementation of ASP.NET is also usable and
> > mod_mono/apache seems to be faster than .NET/ISS.
> > 
> > We use NAnt as build tool, and we are able to compile a
> > project either on Linux or MS Windows with no changes
> > (even if we compile on Windows just for test purposes).
> > 
> > I think Mono will be one of the best .NET alternatives...
> > and don't forget that behind Mono there is a company
> > like Novell...
> > 
> > So, don't feel frustrated and go ahead.
> > 
> > j3d.
> > 
> > 
> >>After trying to work with Mono, Portable.NET, Qt, and KDE, I've realized
> >>that
> >>I'm fighting a battle that I cannot win. Mono supports Gtk# (and GTK+) to
> >>the
> >>exclusion of any other platform. Portable.NET is behind their own SWF
> >>implementation, but at least they are a bit more agnostic. The Qt/KDE
> >>community seems to find the entire concept of C# and its use of metadata
> >>and
> >>JIT compilation repulsive.
> >>
> >>I'm tired of trying and failing. I'm tired of having no one to support me.
> >>I'm
> >>tired of feeling isolated and alone.
> >>
> >>It's just not worth it. Maybe I will end up Windows XP and .NET. Who
> >>knows. I
> >>just know that the Free software community has got to be the most hostile
> >>and
> >>intolerant group of people I have ever encountered.
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> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
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George Farris <george@gmsys.com>