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Has already happened ;)

Has already happened ;)

Posted Jun 24, 2005 9:07 UTC (Fri) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Has already happened ;) by pkolloch
Parent article: Microsoft Puts Roadblock in Front of Open-Sourcing Avalon and Indigo (eWeek)

do not want to clone the API anymore. Instead they want to provide similar functionality in a library that runs in Mono and the original .Net environment.

And thus breaking compatibility with the Microsoft libraries...

Bye,NAR


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Breaking Compatability

Posted Jun 24, 2005 10:20 UTC (Fri) by pkolloch (subscriber, #21709) [Link]

Yes, obviously, and I outlined above that I do not care.

Has already happened ;)

Posted Jun 25, 2005 6:33 UTC (Sat) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760) [Link]

Except if they provide a compatibility layer for Microsoft libraries, something that allows to code for the compatibility layer and use Microsoft libraries + layer or mono lib underneath :)

With a transition tool to ease migration. Not sure how technically this is feasible, but that would be fun, turning the problem the other way around.

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