On 2005 May 6, at 5:55 PM, Henry Lenzi wrote:
> But for the BSDs, maybe Mono would be a
> fresh, unhindered start.
Erm...for Linux, maybe. Not for us.
http://www.mono-project.com/FAQ:_Licensing
All we could use are the class libraries. Everything else is GPL.
And, truthfully, I just don't see the point behind it, either. It's not
like C# or Java is *that* much better than C or C++ or Perl or Lisp or
any of a dozen other languages that *aren't* encumbered. I mean, sure,
you could probably pick something to which Java is well suited, and I
certainly don't want to start a language flame war.
But, if you're using OpenBSD at least partly for ideological reasons,
neither Java nor C# has anything that beats out some other language's
openness.
Cheers,
b&
P.S. It'll be a cold day in Hell before anything in OpenBSD gets
compiled with Mono. I suppose there's a very off chance that Java code
could make it in if it compiles cleanly with gcj...but I'd be really,
really surprised. You'd have to convince Theo that Java is a necessary
language for whatever it is that you're doing, and I just simply don't
see that happening anytime soon. b&
P.P.S. Ports is, of course, another story. No reason why Java and Mono
shouldn't have their place there--particular licenses, code quality,
etc., permitting. b&
P.P.P.S. Migrating or porting custom Java or .Net stuff is, naturally,
yet another matter. b&
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