I agree with you,
however the anti mono crowed will not be so easy to convince.
Their
are people proclaiming that none of the mono applications which are
candidates for inclusion as default rely on any mono implementations
of non - ECMA Microsoft libraries.
Also people are
proclaiming that the non ECMA Microsoft libraries are not required
for development on linux.
It is also said that linux
distributions do not include the non-ECMA libraries by default and so
people have nothing to worry about.
If Banshee is to be
included by default on ubuntu 9.10 as default then all of the above
will be not true.
Banshee requires ADO.net so Ubuntu will ship
by default with ADO.net a non standardised library which is not
covered by the community promise.
If the anti-mono crowed gets
wind of this we will have big problems.
Microsoft has chosen
not to standardise ADO.net for whatever reason.... The mono answer to
another non standard library (winforms) was to provide a superior
alternative. All I'm suggesting is that we do the same
here.
Cheers,
Daniel
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Daniel Hughes<trampster gmail com> wrote:Honestly, I do not agree. �There are a wide variety of similar
> Mono needs a replacement / alternative to ADO.net
abstraction libraries for other languages (DBI for Perl, PDO for PHP,
etc.) that I think would work quite well as prior art for the API that
has been developed by Microsoft. �I find it very unlikely that there
is anything new or novel in ADO.NET.
--
Chris Howie
http://www.chrishowie.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers
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