The Register is hardly mainstream

Posted Jul 17, 2008 18:57 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Source by dmarti
Parent article: Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktop (the Register)

There's often entertaining to read, and very snarky, but their take on things is usually rather skewed compared to the mainstream trade press's take.

The Register is hardly mainstream

Posted Jul 17, 2008 18:58 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

s/There's/They are/, not sure how I messed that one up.

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Posted Jul 17, 2008 21:05 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link] (2 responses)

Indeed; more GTK+/GNOME developers are concerned over Mono dependencies creeping in
(ndesk-dbus and gnome-keyring-sharp are *replacements* for the C/GObject-based dbus and
gnome-keyring), rather than their platform going cross-platform.

Given that the alternative, Qt, works much better on OS X than GTK+ does right now, having a
more widespread use of GTK+ on Mac is a win-win proposition: more applications get written in
it, and they benefit from more open competition (some Mac applications, even limiting the
scope to open-sourced ones, are better than their Un*x counterparts, for instance, BibDesk)

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Posted Jul 18, 2008 18:20 UTC (Fri) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link] (1 responses)

That is a dependency for Mono apps, not for C (non-Mono) apps. So it is *not* a replacement as
you seem to suggest.

As to the:
> Indeed; more GTK+/GNOME developers are concerned over 
> Mono dependencies creeping in [..] rather than their 
> platform going cross-platform.

I saw no such concern.

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Posted Jul 19, 2008 18:43 UTC (Sat) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

Incorrect: ndesk-dbus, just like the C counterpart, are both meant to be used solely over
D-BUS, regardless of programming language:

http://www.ndesk.org/DBusSharp

There are proposals for it to completely replace the C version, though I hope it does not come
to that, because the licensing is more flexible (MIT vs GPL).

Of course, since using D-BUS does not mean linking against the D-BUS bridge, the licensing
concerns are probably exaggerated to begin with.