Fedora meeting Mono Half-Way

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:46 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 07:27 -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote:
> > 
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> > I know.  I'm saying forget about Mono.  Just install the mono bindings
> > for d-bus, hal, etc...  there are no patent issues with them. 
> 
> As the D-Bus co-maintainer and coauthor of the python bindings I can
> confidently say why would you want this?  Packagers don't have to mess
> with the system libraries.  Why?  Because they can just package up the
> bindings.  Forget that it all comes from the same source tree.  That is
> not important.
> 
> P.S. I don't know of any Hal bindings other than the C convenience
> libraries as you usually access HAL directly from D-Bus for the most
> part.
> 
> -- 
> John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>

I should also note that once we stabilize our ABI's you wouldn't even
need to update the bindings if the core libraries were updated except to
get new functionality.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>