This is on github. Does this mean that MS is abandoning CodePlex?
From other articles[1] it looks that way. Really makes you think how big github has become.
[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/15/codeplex_repository_...
CoreCLR is now open source
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#22MIT-licensed, even.
I wonder why they would do this. In fact, I don't see the benefit of MIT over Apache except for compatibility with GPLv2. But I'm definitely not an expert, if someone would want to explain.
I have no idea what mattered to Microsoft, but my view is that MIT is just simpler. There really aren't too many disagreements on what the license requires.
Additionally, if you don't truly plan on enforcing many requirements of the license (e.g., if a distributor fails to "cause any modified files to carry prominent notices stating that You changed the files" (4.b.), will you send them a letter telling them to correct the problem?), then why bother using a license that includes those requirements?
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#23Next step, WinForms
I think it would be more interesting and useful to have the source for WPF, given that WPF is an actual GUI toolkit implementing its own widgets, whereas WinForms is basically just a wrapper around Win32.
Unfortunately, I think a lot of the interesting parts of WPF are just wrappers around DirectX APIs.
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#24I really like the new Microsoft. Ballmer was really trying to run the company into the ground.
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#25I am really interested to see what happens once ASP.Net is running on Linux. C# and Visual Studio are fantastic, mature tools and I think a lot of developers would enjoy using them whereas they might be hesitant at the moment due to OS lock-in on the code they are writing.
Could/Does Visual Studio run in Linux?
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#27Interesting commit: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/commit/90ef39bc3c9886e7967... "This change fixes a potential problem in unwinding on Linux"
Interesting quote from README.md:
"You can 'watch' the repo to see Linux and Mac support being added over the next few months."
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it would be more interesting and useful to have the source for WPF, given that WPF is an actual GUI toolkit implementing its own widgets, whereas WinForms is basically just a wrapper around Win32.
Unfortunately, I think a lot of the interesting parts of WPF are just wrappers around DirectX APIs.
That's just for rendering. All the controls and data-binding mechanisms are straight-up C#.
For example: http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#PresentationFramework/...
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#29I wonder how this would aid projects such as IronPython and IronRuby if at all, just out of curiosity. My only dream is that they eventually have VS on Linux.
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#30I am really interested to see what happens once ASP.Net is running on Linux. C# and Visual Studio are fantastic, mature tools and I think a lot of developers would enjoy using them whereas they might be hesitant at the moment due to OS lock-in on the code they are writing.
Could/Does Visual Studio run in Linux?
Not yet. MonoDevelop is the closest you'll get at the moment.