From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brent Cook Subject: Re: Alternate to Ixia's ANVL test harness for tcp compliance. Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:47:14 -0500 Message-ID: <200607201647.15334.bcook@bpointsys.com> References: <1153424967.8114.450.camel@piet2.bluelane.com> <1153427074.8114.466.camel@piet2.bluelane.com> <44BFF644.2020507@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: piet@bluelane.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger , David Miller , Andi Kleen , piet at work , Rajneesh Saini Return-path: Received: from 70-253-197-251.ded.swbell.net ([70.253.197.251]:1077 "EHLO bpointsys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750753AbWGTVrV (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:47:21 -0400 To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <44BFF644.2020507@garzik.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.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.