wine-mono is not welcome

[Ian Malone]

On 11 July 2012 12:24, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz
> <mmarzantowicz at osdf.com.pl> wrote:
>> What is the difference and what is wrong in being cross-platform?
>
> There is nothing wrong with being cross-platform.
> You must have misread, or misunderstood what I tried to say.
>
> I said that WINE is useful for running Windows apps that might not be
> available on Linux.
>
> I also said that WINE serves that niche, but doesn´t try to "infect"
> Linux apps (ie Mono hooks in Gnome).
>

I think you keep misunderstanding the provision of language bindings.
This is a bit like saying Python or Perl are trying to infect gnome
because they have bindings.

Major mono apps in Gnome:
F-spot - deprecated for Shotwell.
Tomboy - gone
Beagle - dead

Mono provision in Wine is a different matter altogether, that's using
Mono (open source) to provide a replacement .Net (closed source)
runtime for windows applications as part of the functionality of Wine.
There you may as well say their replacements for MFC are trying to
infect linux. MS may well have wanted to push Mono in an attempt to
gain a bit of control over the Linux sector, but if they did then that
attempt failed several years ago.

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