Well, this is surprising isn't it? Microsoft are handing over the Mono Project to the Wine developers with a thank you note.
  • bufalo1973@lemmy.ml
    62·
    3 months ago

    Donates or “donates”? As “all yours” or as in “it’s ours but you do the work”?

    • anamethatisnt@lemmy.world
      866·
      3 months ago

      As in
      “We’ve finished taking all we need from the Mono project and implemented it into our proprietary .NET implementation for Linux, Android and iOS. Instead of getting flack for killing off Mono (which is open source and would’ve been forked anyways) we graciously give this old husk to the Wine project. We recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET. kthnxbye!”

      Good thing that it went to Wine I guess, as they do lots of work to get old Windows programs up and running in Linux and that often involves Mono.

        • Vivendi@lemmy.zip
          25·
          3 months ago

          Oh what’s that? Some rational thought in my ramblings? Nah we can’t have that in this sublemmy champ

      • SatyrSack@lemmy.one
        18·
        3 months ago

        Good thing that it went to Wine I guess, as they do lots of work to get old Windows programs up and running in Linux and that often involves Mono.

        I see this as the main purpose of this transfer of ownership. When it comes to developing new software, MS has their modern tech stack for creating cross-compatible code, and the recommendation is to use that. But that is not helpful when trying to get old legacy software running on a modern system. So MS is giving this “outdated” technology to the WINE team. A team whose primary goal is getting incompatible software to run in the “wrong” environment. This should allow WINE to continue to properly handle older Mono software for the foreseeable future.

    • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
      15·
      3 months ago

      as in “your fork is official now, we have our own compatability in .net and there’s no need to maintain it”

      The recognition is nice, but there hadn’t been a major release in over 5 years. I’d guess the outcome is mostly paperwork

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    361·
    3 months ago

    Okay, a suspicious thanks to you, Microsoft…

    …So when can we get this treatment for WMR so all our VR headsets don’t become useless bricks kthaaaanks!

  • noxfriend@beehaw.org
    17·
    3 months ago

    Does Mono have any purpose any longer? What is the point now that dotnet core is so well-established?

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
      21·
      3 months ago

      Yes, Mono is used by Wine to support Windows .NET applications since it’s a) open source and b) contains support for Windows Forms and other Windows-only APIs.

      They can’t ship the regular .NET framework by default for licensing reasons but it can be installed with winetricks to replace Mono, which is sometimes necessary for compatibility reasons.