The monkey gets in
August 6, 2006 – 5:17 amIt seems that Mono has been accepted as a dependancy for GNOME 2.16 components. I think it’s a good step forward, because C#/GTK# allows easier, faster and better development than mucking around in C for most usual desktop applications. That means we could see a boom of great (as well as not so great :) apps for GNOME in the following months or years.
This decision was carefuly worded, though - no existing modules can start depending on Mono (so it won’t spread like a virus through the entire GNOME system); I think that’s a wise choice; if nothing else, just to placate the nay-sayers, and of course, just in case the worst (about MS having submarine patents waiting to fire upon Mono).
