[Fedora-packaging] Re: supporting closed source operating systems?

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now that wine is 1.0, I think it really deserves the same pariah
> status that Mono should get.  It's an API controlled by a single
> corporation that is not 100% documented, complex, and been
> reimplemented from the inside out.  Where do we draw the line between
> Mono compiling EXEs and DLLs that work under .Net on Windows and a
> cross compiler compiling EXEs and DLLs that work on windows without
> .Net?  If you really want to make this argument, why don't we draw the
> line at Mono?.

Did you miss what happened in the runup to F9? We actually pulled
pre-compiled stuff out of some mono packages...and it really pissed a
few people off...but we did it.

-jef