Mono 2 released

http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.0

by bdfh42 • 18 years ago

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jwilliams• 18 years ago

Aside from Second Life (and Novell), are there any big deployments using Mono?

thwarted2• 18 years ago

It's sad that Microsoft made someone else reimplement all this because of licensing restrictions. I mean, it's 2008. What, exactly, does Microsoft have to gain by keeping their language and runtime code proprietary, especially if they are letting someone else reimplement it for other platforms? I bet there would be more Mono deployments if the industry had not already been bitten once by Java's fragmentation.

tdavis• 18 years ago

I feel sort of bad for the Mono team; despite all the hard work put into this release to get .NET 2.0 support implemented, they're still, what? 1.5 versions behind?

When I last toyed with learning ASP.NET 2.0 quite some time ago, I decided I'd wait until Mono 2 was released and there was a solid version of MonoEdit so I wouldn't be stuck working in a VM. That seems like a really long time ago...

trapper• 18 years ago

Does anyone actually use mono?

nuclear_eclipse• 18 years ago

F-Spot, Banshee, and people who want cross-platform Gtk+ apps written in C# as opposed to Python or C++.

pchristensen• 18 years ago

Joel uses it for the Linux and Mac versions of FogBugz.

cookiecaper• 18 years ago

Yes. A lot of flagship GNOME products, in particular, and lots of other people. Mono is cool, man.

steelhive2• 18 years ago

There has been some great work for the DLR (rides on Mono/CLR) and it'd make a fantastic platform on which to develop new languages.

But the licensing/patent agreement between Novell and Microsoft only applies to Novell and its customers. Microsoft reserves the right to sue anyone else for violating its patents. Unfortunately I think Novell got little from this deal. And worse yet, I think it'd be irresponsible for any organization (other than Novell or its customers) to develop anything mission critical on Mono. See Wikipedia's entry for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)

delackner• 18 years ago

Could someone please actually respond to this comment? It was downmodded, but checking the url at Wikipedia (his url gets screwed up because it contains parens)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)#Mono_and_Microsoft.E2.80.99s_patents

And it looks like the Windows Forms and such stuff may be a patent problem.

jcl• 18 years ago

On the other hand, "may be a patent problem" is an appropriate description of any recently written software.

I would expect Microsoft to fulfill its "Linux violates n Microsoft patents" threat before it does the same for Mono: Each programmer using Mono enhances the .NET ecosystem, while each Linux installation degrades Windows' market share.

steelhive2• 18 years ago

Here's the relevant link repackaged to get around the parens problem. http://tinyurl.com/4epkag

Heh. A site written in a lisp-variant has trouble with parens. :-)

lst• 18 years ago

...if you play Mono, you never can tell where the music is really coming from...

(Too bad for Monopoly that Stereo is a well-established standard already...)

utnick• 18 years ago

Mono is a very developer friendly open source project as well.

They have great info on how to contribute.

I actually submitted my first open source project patch to mono this weekend! If you are looking for a project to contribute to, I can't recommend mono enough.

st3fan• 18 years ago

Would anyone miss mono if it disappeared? I don't think I've ever installed something that required it.

Or is Mono much more popular for desktop/gui applications on GNOME? (Not my world)

thomasmallen• 18 years ago

I think Beagle's in Mono...I know that a number of GNOME apps depend on it.

bad_user• 18 years ago

I would miss Mono.

quasimojo• 18 years ago

upmod if you tried mono, liked it, but just couldn't stand seeing files with .exe and .dll extensions on your linux box

icey• 18 years ago

While I agree with your sentiment, could we not start with the "upmod if" posts?

eduardoflores• 18 years ago

I think Miguel's post is far more informative: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Oct-06.html

Mono 2 released

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