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author | Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org> | 2001-07-10 04:54:07 +0400 |
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committer | Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org> | 2001-07-10 04:54:07 +0400 |
commit | 5b51743061b48740c46b7d85f447b507c9b28762 (patch) | |
tree | 3baf08a3ed3f2e504289634eefc403f6d099eb03 /doc/faq | |
parent | 621c73c4130eaad53bff5222bd8ea31592da4463 (diff) |
More FAQ
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@@ -224,8 +224,12 @@ Q: How is this related to GNOME? A: In a number of ways: * Mono will use existing - components that have been developed for GNOME (Gtk+, Libart, - Gnome-DB and maybe others). + components that have been developed for GNOME when it makes + sense. For example on X systems, we will use Gtk+ and + Libart to implement Winforms and the Drawing2D API. + + For database access, we will use LibGDA (not really + depending on GNOME, but related to). * This project was born out of the need of providing improved tools for the GNOME community. @@ -484,3 +488,21 @@ A: People can already do this by targeting the JVM byte codes (there are about 130 compilers for various languages that target the JVM). +** Mono and Portability + +Q: Will Mono work on other variants of Unix? + +A: Yes. We do not expect to add any gratuitous incompatibilities. + +Q: Will Mono run on Windows? + +A: Hopefully yes. Currently some parts of Mono only run on Windows + (the C# compiler is a .NET executable) and other parts have only + been compiled on Linux, but work on Windows with Cygwin. + +Q: Will Mono depend on GNOME? + +A: It will depend only if you are using a particular assembly (for + example, for doing GUI applications). If you are just interested + in Mono for implementing a `Hello World Enterprise P2P Web + Service', you will not need any GNOME component.
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