[sword-devel] Porting to MS .NET framework

2003-06-10 Thread Bryant Huang
Hi, This is in response to the first question that Nguyen Ly posted back in early May. I haven't been subscribed to the mailing list, nor have I been checking the list recently, so I didn't see this question earlier. You asked: "Anyone thinking of porting the Sword API to MS .NET framework classe

Re: [sword-devel] Porting to MS .NET framework

2003-06-06 Thread David's Mailing-list and Spam Receiver
On Thursday 05 June 2003 08:13 pm, John Baima wrote: > Right. That is one of the reasons that Mono has become one of the most > successful open source projects. Once you have the .NET Framework (which > does not need anything Microsoft), besides the free Microsoft C# compiler, > and the Microsoft V

Re: [sword-devel] Porting to MS .NET framework

2003-06-06 Thread John Baima
At 07:07 PM 6/5/2003 -0400, David wrote: One of the things you will find within the opensource community is a large resistance to being told what tools to use. Right. That is one of the reasons that Mono has become one of the most successful open source projects. Once you have the .NET Framework

Re: [sword-devel] Porting to MS .NET framework

2003-06-06 Thread David's Mailing-list and Spam Receiver
On Thursday 05 June 2003 04:02 pm, John Baima wrote: > At 01:38 PM 6/5/2003 -0400, David wrote: > No, David, I did not miss what you said. In fact, I quoted it and you > deleted it. You said, "Except C# isn't as portable as C++. The C# linux > compilers are still very very > much in beta and aren't

Re: [sword-devel] Porting to MS .NET framework

2003-06-06 Thread John Baima
At 01:38 PM 6/5/2003 -0400, David wrote: On Thursday 05 June 2003 01:05 pm, John Baima wrote: > Have you checked Mono (www.go-mono.com) ? The .NET platform, not just C#, > solves a lot of problems and while there are some real issues with it today > (e.g., no Palm OS), I think that it will prove to

Re: [sword-devel] Porting to MS .NET framework

2003-06-06 Thread David's Mailing-list and Spam Receiver
On Thursday 05 June 2003 01:05 pm, John Baima wrote: > Have you checked Mono (www.go-mono.com) ? The .NET platform, not just C#, > solves a lot of problems and while there are some real issues with it today > (e.g., no Palm OS), I think that it will prove to be a very popular > environment in the y

Re: [sword-devel] Porting to MS .NET framework

2003-06-06 Thread John Baima
Except C# isn't as portable as C++. The C# linux compilers are still very very much in beta and aren't close to fully functional last I checked. And I don't know of a mac C# compiler at all. Have you checked Mono (www.go-mono.com) ? The .NET platform, not just C#, solves a lot of problems and