On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Russell Adams wrote: > Slightly offtopic, but I was reading /. where they are arguing over > the inclusion of Mono in Debian in order to support the Tomboy app. > > I won't get into the whole Mono debate, but I was curious why the > angst over one application? Whats it do? > > Its a note taking app for Gnome written in Mono! In fact, it sounds > like they are trying for some similar Org functionality, but with a > GUI frontend. > > > I think it ironic they are arguing over including this in Debian, when > they already have Emacs and Org out of the box. ;]
The feeling of angst is caused by making Tomboy _required_ for Gnome and what it, in turn, requires to run - Mono. It's certainly not a _required_ application and even more so when alternatives exist. But you knew that already. http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25215/1090/1/1/ http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/06/12/the-ubuntumono-debate-continues/ -- Manish _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
