Will mono be included in fedora core 2?

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Thu Dec 18 01:03:51 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 19:44, Dave Jones wrote:
> One thing that does bother me a little if this doesn't get included in
> Fedora is that as Gnome goes forward, and more and more core Gnome
> utilities start being written in C#, Fedora's Gnome is going to look
> anaemic in comparison to that shipped by other vendors.
> Especially when folks start wanting to play with toys like dashboard.
> Short of writing clones in C/C++ the only option is to not include these
> features. Well, other than Fedora Extras, but what happens when core
> bits of gnome/evolution/whatever start needing C# ?

We need to keep patented code out of core GNOME or its dependencies.

Havoc






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