matt.griffith - thinking out loud

 Friday, May 16, 2003

Moving Day

I'm finally moving to my new home. I'll continue to update this site for a while.

I will maintain the existing content on this site for the foreseeable future.

10:57:58 PM    

The Portability Myth

One surely can't expect a very complex C# Winforms app with all the fancy GDI+ goodness and user controls to just work on Mono (unless I'm missing something) - not until the underlying implementation of ALL the dependancies are written and implementing using whatever Linux OS primitives are required to provide these features. [Scott Hanselman]

This is TouchGraph version 1.22-jre1.1 compiled with J# 1.1 and running as a .NET 1.1 Windows application:

TouchGraph version 1.22-jre1.1 running as a .NET Windows application

The fact that it compiled without modification is surprising. The fact that it runs error free is amazing. The fact that it is slower than molasses in January is understandable.

I imagine I will feel the same way IF the Mono team is ever able to get something like Vault running.

10:57:07 PM