[Mono-winforms-list] Porting job

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> BTW, I've been toying with the idea of using Endogine and OpenBlackBox  
> (via AGG, OpenGL, and possible MyXAML) to write a XAML rendering  
> subsystem. It's a huge task, I know, but I feel it will become important  
> to have a non-MS alternative to WPF. Has there been any work done in the  
> OSS WPF area yet?

Some pieces are in place, last year through the Google Summer of Code,
Iain McCoy implemented a XAML compiler, and the necessary infrastructure
for that.

It is all GUI-less.

The next stage is to create the GUI components;   We have not attempted
to look at it so far for a number of reasons:

	* The API is still very much changing, and tracking a changing 
	  API many times results in wasted effort.

	* At least those of us at Novell want to first ship Windows.
	  Forms and not be distracted by the new shinny object.

In the long term, a WPF implementation will likely happen in the open
source world (either by us, or other teams) but it feels more bloated
than it should.

Miguel.