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Does this include Moonlight project ? I would love to try to hack on that to try to get a cross platform GUI toolkit that's similar to WPF. Silverlight was a
by rubber_duck 11y ago
Does this include Moonlight project ?
I would love to try to hack on that to try to get a cross platform GUI toolkit that's similar to WPF.
Silverlight was a great peace of tech with a ton of stuff developed for it (widgets, testing tools, libraries, etc.) having that as a cross platform GUI framework that works on windows/linux/mac and ios/android/wp would be amazing and is doable - for simplicity you could strip out the codec parts, DRM and stuff like that, implement rendering on top of OpenGL ES and do platform specific input handling.
LGPL kind of makes phones a no-go so I would like to see if it's also covered in this switch before spending time on it.
- Gorkys 11y agoCould I suggest you take a look at my project, Perspex?https://github.com/Perspex/Perspex https://github.com/Perspex/Perspex - it sounds like it ticks your boxes and we're always in need of contributors!
- migueldeicaza 11y agoIt does not include Moonlight, we do not have the rights to relicense that. The rights for Moonlight stayed at Novell.
- rubber_duck 11y agoA shame :( I wonder what your thougts are on this - personally ofc. - you probably thought about it at some point given your work on moonlight and xamarin. Even the MS implementation was ported to osx, you could strip codec/DRM stuff - you could get a fully featured GUI toolkit native to .NET - a lot of work went in to that before Microsoft pulled the plug - now that it's laying dead and new MS OSS trend it doesn't seem that far fetched that they could OSS it.