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From: Brent Cook <bcook@bpointsys.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: piet@bluelane.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	piet at work <piet@work.piet.net>,
	Rajneesh Saini <rksaini@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Alternate to Ixia's ANVL test harness for tcp compliance.
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:47:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607201647.15334.bcook@bpointsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44BFF644.2020507@garzik.org>

On Thursday 20 July 2006 16:31, 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.
>
> 	Jeff
>

Base C# support is pretty good in Mono, but you still have to be quite careful 
when creating a cross-platform application with it. Microsoft's version 
implements a number of libraries that still are not quite as well implemented 
in Mono (if at all). The toolkit libraries (Windows Forms, to the latest 
stuff with Vista) are a bit of a moving target. Plus, the .Net platform still 
lets developers interact with COM objects and other Windows-only code.

Just because the GUI is C# does not mean that it does not have a number of 
Windows-only dependencies, unless it was implemented with portability 
in-mind.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-20 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-20 19:49 Alternate to Ixia's ANVL test harness for tcp compliance Piet Delaney
2006-07-20 20:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-20 20:24   ` Piet Delaney
2006-07-20 21:17     ` David Miller
2006-07-20 21:31     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-20 21:42       ` Piet Delaney
2006-07-20 21:47       ` Brent Cook [this message]
2006-07-20 21:56         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-20 20:08 ` jamal
2006-07-20 20:28 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-20 20:43   ` Tomasz Torcz

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