The Register is hardly mainstream

Posted Jul 17, 2008 21:05 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: The Register is hardly mainstream by JoeBuck
Parent article: Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktop (the Register)

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)

The Register is hardly mainstream

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.

The Register is hardly mainstream

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.