On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, S. Krishnan wrote:
If anyone's interested, there's now a C# compiler for linux. It's packaged with portable.NET, a system for non-microsoft platforms.
Would anyone (outside M$ afficiandos) be interested?
Yes. Everyone should be interested. This same question was asked on freshmeat, and then answer is there to be read.
by Sam Kennedy - Mar 14th 2001 09:08:22 > why? > Well, .NET should be supported. World domination doesn't happen by rebuilding things, but by taking them over. This is a way for Opensource to take over .NET!!
by Rhys Weatherley - Mar 14th 2001 18:01:40 > why? > 1. Because we need to keep Microsoft honest on this stuff. We can't let them turn it into another "run the binary and trust us" system. The security issues are too great. Only the open source model can produce a truly secure system. 2. I like messing with parsers and runtimes and stuff. It's fun! :)
Philip