On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:06:18PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 08/20/2010 12:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:08:31 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> Luckily Evolution has nothing to do with Mono. Actually, I don't know of > >> any email client written in C#. > > > > No? :-? > > > > Then I confused Evo with another developments using Mono. I always > > thought that installing Evolution will pull Mono libraries (required for > > plugins and connectors), but I maybe wrong. > > > > IIRC when the big issue came up of some distros (suse and ubuntu > maybe?), shipping mono with default gnome, was because of tomboy-notes.
Debian also. Or rather, it originally didn't. Because mono violated one of Debian's most valued values. (It does not run on many platforms, due to being based on Mono[1]). Then one anti-mono zealot went ahead and provided a nice clone for it in C++, called gnote. It's functional indeed, but not as much as tomboy. The result is that now the Debian GNOME maintainers can safely add 'tomboy | gnote' as a dependency of the gnome meta package. Moral of the story: if you really think mono is evil, go and make gnote better than tomboy. [1] See http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/mono-runtime. Note the list of platforms. Compare to e.g. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libgtk2.0-0 . -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100821120237.gn17...@pear.tzafrir.org.il
