Hi all , MoonLight is the Ximian's implementation of Silverlight Infrastrcture from scratch. It holds great promise for developers who were targeting Windows to get into Linux and MAC OS X . I think , Mono Project has come of age for real development. Incidently , I am talking about Mono tomorrow at a developer conference organized by Kerala Microsoft Users group. ( It is Kerala Microsoft Tools user group ! ) . The session is titled "PlunJ into Mono". ( I will be using Mono under MAC OS X for my demo. !!! in a M$ sponsored event.) Last week , I ported a 7500+ LOC program written for .NET 1.1 to run using Mono under Windows , Linux and MAC OS X. The program compiles correctly on all these platforms. Under Fedora 10 , It works fine without any glitches. One of my friend reported that the stuff works fine on OpenSUSE ( Both distributions use Mono for their utilities !) In MAC OS X , we need to compile sqlite3 to generate dylib (.so in linux parlance ) to run the program. I have blogged about it and planning to open source it under the name SPAM4.net http://praseedp.blogspot.com/2010/10/spam4net-educational-tool-for-wannabie.html I have compiled my SLANG4.net (http://slangfordotnet.codeplex.com ) using Mono In a nutshell , a ) Mono is now production ready for real life software development b ) Windows developers can target other platform ( Cross Platform C# ) c ) You can develop for iPhone ( MonoTouch ) and Android (MonoDroid ) What is in store for FOSS people. a) There is no good Desktop development tool under GNU Linux. Mono can fill the void. b) More people targetting Linux means more adoption for GNU Linux. A note ---------- When .NET was announced , Stallman was a enthusiastic supporter for the initiative by starting dotGNU project. I have heard him (in person ) talking about this in the year August,2001. When, the mono project got more adoption , he made a U-turn on this. regards Praseed Pai
--- On Fri, 10/22/10, sreekanth sasikanth <[email protected]> wrote: From: sreekanth sasikanth <[email protected]> Subject: [ILUG-Cochin.org] The Moonlight Project (Microsoft's Silverlight compatible GPL Version) To: "GPL SoftwareThis List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 22, 2010, 11:43 AM Hi all, I believe we all have been hearing about Microsoft's Silverlight project intended to compete with Adobe Flash player. Well, i have seen today that there is a GPL V2 version of this project called Moonlight developed by Novell. What is our stand on it??.. Do u think Moonlight can be promoted ??.. Please make your suggestions.. Warm Regards, S.Sreekanth -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
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