RE: [Evolution] evolution on windows

[Mike Limon <malimon bellsouth net>]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 19:18 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 08:51 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:02 +0100, Lehmann, Eckhard {TR-I~Penzberg}
> > wrote: 
> [snip]
> > Miguel has the wild idea that we're all going to throw all the code
> > away and rewrite it in c# anyway, providing a cross-platform port 'for
> > free'.  We could have done that for 2.0 perhaps, but mono was
> > definitely too green then (as far as i can tell), so we didn't.  The
> > idea excites me like a kick to the head really.
>
> You think that the C++ code base has a solid-enough design and
> implementation that a re-write isn't necessary?


I'm pretty sure the meaning behind that wasn't that the current code
base is overly multi-platform and easy to port, but rather mono isn't
the best platform in the world and Miguel is being overly idealistic
about such a shady project.