Hello! On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:03:04PM -0700, Ben Goren wrote: >On 2005 May 6, at 5:55 PM, Henry Lenzi wrote:
>> But for the BSDs, maybe Mono would be a >> fresh, unhindered start. >Erm...for Linux, maybe. Not for us. > http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_Licensing >All we could use are the class libraries. Everything else is GPL. I'd think that that doesn't make it worse than Java for ports. Was anyone talking about the base system *yuck*? >[...] >P.S. It'll be a cold day in Hell before anything in OpenBSD gets >compiled with Mono. I suppose there's a very off chance that Java code >could make it in if it compiles cleanly with gcj... gcj... That thing where whenever I tried (ok, the last try is quite some time ago), not even a hello world kind of program worked? >but I'd be really, >really surprised. You'd have to convince Theo that Java is a necessary >language for whatever it is that you're doing, and I just simply don't >see that happening anytime soon. b& Ok, frankly, there *are* some tasks where manual memory management is tedius and GC could be faster than reference counted pointers in C++. But I don't see anything worth including into base that would require a programming language not already supported in base. >P.P.S. Ports is, of course, another story. No reason why Java and Mono >shouldn't have their place there--particular licenses, code quality, >etc., permitting. b& *nods* And then a mostly GPL'ed Mono is even easier than (even more) encumbered Sun JDK. >[...] Kind regards, Hannah.
