From DaemonNews: “François Jacques and Jean-Claude Batista have an article on macadamian.com on writing a tiny version of the MSN messenger client on Windows and FreeBSD [with the help of a TCL/TK gui]. The example is available in source code form for free.” Our Take: It feels a bit strange to have software compile for the .NET Framework under FreeBSD. It is definately a welcoming addition to FreeBSD, but it still feels a bit strange. We’ll get used to it, I guess.
C# Example of MSN Messenger on Windows and FreeBSD
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“…have an article…” not “…have and article…”
Get used to it. You can say about Microsoft whatever you want, but they’re not stupid..NET is how they will expand their power on non-Windows platforms.
Care to elaborate? Most people using/supporting/creating for the nonwindows platforms do it because they like it. The *quality* computing market has become a nitch market thanks to intel/ms. People in these niche markets do what they do because they like or love doing what they’re doing. They dont do it to get rich. Money is just an added bonus. I think that I have *some* qualifications in making that statement since I and most of my friends are in that cituation. Having said that, people in these markets will not use MS products out of pure principal. Something about being part of a problem if not part of solution….
The preceding was just an opinion of a quality zealot. As such it will not be taked seriously
hehehe… They’re using a native interface to call tcl/tk stuff. that’s fucking hilarious. That’s the equivilent of using JNI to call into underliyng system gui libs. that is NOT cross platform. And the crypto stuff is not included.
HAHAHA
Wow. This really IS better than Java.</sarcasm>
BTW
After trying to use .net, France surrendered.
and AmigaDE looks good too
Again who needs .NET?
. That’s the equivilent of using JNI to call into underliyng system gui libs.
isnt that what swing does?
Glenn
Kinda. It used to do that in the previous releases. Now it does kinda what QT does. It grabs a piece of realastate from the frame buffer and does its own drawing of widgets and signal handling. And that’s not really JNI since its very much abstracted from the programmer. Swing is the same on windows,irix,solaris,linux… etc. Loading libs like they did is not. No other os’s have “dll’s”. They have something very simmilar *cough*better*cough*. Either way, for a cross platform application the programmer should not have to be awere of the system specific semantics for loading shared libs.
L8R
Vic