[Mono-list] Mono suite?!

[smurfd]

Cool. Well it was just something i thought about, and figured i'd share...
and yeah, its probably like you say. More appliable on windows.

Anyways, thanks for the answer.

/N

On 7/13/06, Terry L. Triplett <c0d3g33k at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting idea, but not necessarily in the way you meant it.  The things
> you list are applications that happen to run on Mono, but they aren't really
> integral to Mono as a platform or runtime environment.  It's hard to see the
> overall benefit of such a loose collection of applications (unless there's
> some level of integration I don't know about that would support the concept
> of a 'suite').
>
> I find more interesting the idea of a Mono "bundle" that added useful
> things that aren't part of Mono proper to enhance/expand the capabilities of
> a Mono installation.   Things like the Tao bindings, say, or other bindings
> to useful libraries so a developer or application distributor could have
> "batteries included" support for things like OpenGL or SDL.
>
> All told, however, this kind of thing is probably more useful on Windows
> or other platforms without good package management support, since the Linux
> distributions I know of that support Mono already do a good job of managing
> Mono-dependent applications and libraries as discrete packages.  There's
> really no need for a bundle, since the package manager will pull in the
> packages you need as dependencies of the application or library you are
> interested in using.
>
> On 7/13/06, smurfd <smurfd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi. So the other day i was thinking about something.
> Wouldnt it be great, to have kindof like a mono suite (yeah i know what
> you are thinking. "got it already") but i was more thinking in the lines of
> say using that nifty installer and instead of it just installing the mono
> development tools, it installed like the larger utillities aswell.
>
> like f-spot, banshee, muine, beagle etc..
>
> just a thought.
>
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