From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Piet Delaney Subject: Re: Alternate to Ixia's ANVL test harness for tcp compliance. Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:42:57 -0700 Message-ID: <1153431778.15610.19.camel@piet2.bluelane.com> References: <1153424967.8114.450.camel@piet2.bluelane.com> <44BFE1D2.8060004@garzik.org> <1153427074.8114.466.camel@piet2.bluelane.com> <44BFF644.2020507@garzik.org> Reply-To: piet@bluelane.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Piet Delaney , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger , David Miller , Andi Kleen , piet at work , Rajneesh Saini Return-path: Received: from mse2fe2.mse2.exchange.ms ([66.232.26.194]:27239 "EHLO mse2fe2.mse2.exchange.ms") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030384AbWGTVnC (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:43:02 -0400 To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <44BFF644.2020507@garzik.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 17:31 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Piet Delaney wrote: > > I wonder if Microsoft is providing the "big challenge" to porting the > > same GUI to linux. The world really doesn't need yet another Java > > language. Gosling is a Genius, I studied his X11 News Server enough > > to know first hand. Microsoft lost in court with their violating the > > Java standards and C sharp seems to be just another stratagy to their > > bizarre attempt to world domination (Like the SCO mess). > > Runtime dynamic bytecode languages -- Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, ... -- > do seem to be all the rage. > > As DaveM noted, though, C# is fully supported under Linux. > > Or maybe they could go for Gtk+, which has successfully been used to > maintain complex GUIs apps on both Windows and Linux. GIMP is the most > notable example, but use of Gtk+, GLib, and mingw has meant that you can > build Linux-ish apps on Windows without nasty porting layers like Cygwin. Perhaps, but my experience with GTK has been that it's difficult to get installed right if you put it on /usr/local. I tried compiling ethereal for our platform and it needed GTK and a series of other libraries. I suspect it's likely a major effort to migrate from a Microsoft C sharp environment to GTK. -piet > > Jeff > > -- Piet Delaney BlueLane Teck W: (408) 200-5256; piet@bluelane.com H: (408) 243-8872; piet@piet.net