Fedora meeting Mono Half-Way

dragoran dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Thu Dec 15 16:32:37 UTC 2005


Dan Williams wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 07:21 -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote:
>  
>
>>On 12/15/05, Patrick Barnes <nman64 at n-man.com> wrote:
>>        Benjy Grogan wrote:
>>        > Hello:
>>        >
>>        > I know this topic has been mentioned over and over, and
>>        everyone is
>>        > irritated by it.  But why not meet the Mono project
>>        half-way?  Why
>>        > can't the hal-sharp and the dbus-sharp, and gtk-sharp
>>        add-ons be 
>>        > included in the fedora packages?
>>        Patents
>>
>>
>>There are patents in Mono.  But what patent is there in a mono binding
>>do d-bus?  D-bus has no patent issues..  So a mono binding is just
>>like a c++ binding, or a c binding.. or any binding. 
>>
>>I'm talking about including the mono bindings in Fedoro system
>>libraries.
>>
>>I can't see how there would be a patent in a mono binding for d-bus?
>>    
>>
>
>Because you have to have Mono first, before you can build the bindings
>for dbus/hal/etc.  And to make the bindings useful, you must build them.
>
>Dan
>
>
>  
>
but what about a %with_mono flag in the spec file which lets us build it 
without using third party packages? like its done with the bytecode 
interpreter in freetype. (or the ntfs kernel module but this is 
something different)




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