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List:       userlinux-discuss
Subject:    Re: [Discuss] ISV's and Licensing
From:       Julien Olivier <julo () altern ! org>
Date:       2003-12-12 12:07:59
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> GTK# relies upon the underlying C toolkit GTK+.  GTK# can be no better than 
> its underlying toolkit and that toolkit is severly lacking on Windows.  Your 
> statement about Mono, while true, doesn't convey much information.  Mono 
> relies upon regular C libraries for GUI operation.  It is no more portable 
> than those C libraries not to mention the portability of its JIT.

Mono developers plan to implement the SWF classes (the "native" .net UI)
using GTK on Linux. And, of course, a program using SWF wouldn't use GTK
on windows.

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Julien Olivier <julo@altern.org>

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