DotGNU
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| Developed by | Rhys Weatherly (Southern Storm Software Pty), Klaus Treichel, Thong Nguyen, Gopal V, Norbert Bollow |
| Latest release | 0.8.0 / March 20, 2007 |
| OS | Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, Microsoft Windows, others |
| Genre | System platform |
| License | GPL and LGPL |
| Website | http://dotgnu.org |
DotGNU is a part of the GNU Project that aims to provide a free software replacement for Microsoft's .NET Framework. Other goals of the project are better support for non-Windows platforms and support for more processors.
The main goal of the DotGNU project and the Microsoft Shared Source CLI (Rotor) code base is to provide a class library that is 100% Common Language Specification compliant. In contrast, the main goal of another free software/open source CLI implementation, the Mono Project, is to provide 100% compatible class libraries for both the CLS specification and with the class library currently released by Microsoft for their other proprietary version of .NET, which the DotGNU project claims is not currently fully ECMA CLS compliant.[citation needed]
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[edit] Main development projects
[edit] Portable.NET
DotGNU Portable.NET, an implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), includes software to compile and run Visual Basic .NET, C#, and C applications that use the .NET base class libraries, XML, and Windows Forms. Portable.NET claims to support various CPUs including x86, PPC, ARM, and SPARC.
[edit] phpGroupWare
phpGroupWare, a multi-user web-based GroupWare suite, which also serves to provide a collection of webservice components that can be accessed through XML-RPC so that can easily integrate them into webservice applications.
[edit] DGEE
DotGNU Execution Environment (DGEE), a webservice server.
[edit] Framework architecture
The Portable .NET class library seeks to provide facilities for application development. These are primarily written in C#, but because of the Common Language Specification they can be used by any .NET language. Like .NET, the class library is structured into Namespaces and Assemblies.[1] It has additional top-level namespaces including Accessibility and DotGNU. In a typical operation, the Portable .NET compiler generates a Common Language Specification (CLS) image, as specified in chapter 6 of ECMA-335, and the Portable .NET runtime takes this image and runs it.
[edit] Free software
DotGNU is particularly keen to point out that it is free software, and it sets out to ensure that all aspects of DotGNU minimize dependence on proprietary components, such as calls to Microsoft Windows' GUI code. DotGNU is one of the High Priority Free Software Projects.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Project homepage
- Article '2001 -- The Year When DotGNU Was Born'
- A 2003 interview with Norbert Bollow of DotGNU
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