[Open Office] Re: [discuss] Miguel's blog about Mono on Appliances

[Alexandro Colorado]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:20:36 +0100, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg  
<Kay.Ramme at sun.com> wrote:

> Hi Alexandro,
>
> Alexandro Colorado wrote:
>> Reading Miguel's blog he talks about how Paolo got a Nokia 777 (the  
>> device  that runs linux) and start messing around with mono. The device  
>> runs on  the little-endian ARM processor. He succesfully ran it on the  
>> device but  he even pushed to try to use it on other ARM related  
>> devices like the  Linksys NSLU2 comming with a succesful return.
>>  He was so interested that he released a pacakge of mono for ARM  
>> chips.  Pretty interesting hacking came up of messing around with it.
>>  Mono is a rather large application, perhaps not as big as UNO  
>> framework  but is definetly something to look into . If we can get UNO  
>> to work on  other archiquectures like ARM, we could see a OOo on ARM  
>> faster than  before.
> There is quite in a difference in abstraction between UNO and Mono. UNO  
> is just a meta framework, (mostly :-) seamlessly integrating with  
> existing programming languages, where Mono is a new language, providing  
> an abstract platform (probably like Java). Binary UNO programs need to  
> be recompiled, to run e.g. on ARM, where as Mono programs don't.

Mono a new language? All I knew Mono is a multi-compiler and a Jitter. The  
actual language is C# and Boo, Java, Python, Perl bindings. Then again  
maybe michael meeks can address this better since UNO supports C# thanks  
to him.

>>  I guess the right question would be where is the URE source code and  
>> happy  hacking.
>>
> We could develop a Mono-UNO language binding, basically leveraging what  
> Paolo did, on the other hand, we already have Java-UNO, which should be  
> already usable on J2ME devices (I never tried).
>
> Kay
>
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