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On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Michael Huttinger wrote: > > I looked over what you require to run your new program > > and decided that the disruption to my system required > > to install .NET was far more than I wanted to handle. > > .NET is cute, but it is way more than I want installed > > on a simple W2K workstation. > > > > Is there a possibility that you can port your code > > to something the general, non .NET user can use? > > Well, just a few comments here. > > First, I wrote the program in C# (.NET) mainly because it was tons simpler > to code. Porting to C++ would require a different way of doing things, and > have added more complexity than I'm currently willing to deal with. Disclaimer: I haven't run windows since 1996-97. Let me say this: Thanks! Question: Mr. Huttinger - what about licensing issues? I see your code is under the GPL (good for you!) but what about the binaries/installer/etc? While C# is an ECMA standard, the whole .NET thing has me spooked a bit -- I'm not about to start programming in C# using .NET just to find out that MicroSoft has icky licensing terms. We can take this offline if you wish (it really has nothing to do with OpenVPN). Regarding a "port": One possibility is to "port" the application to Python + gtk+. Python is, of course, completely cross platform, and gtk+ runs on X11, MacOSX, and a whole slew of Windows variations. I haven't personally written apps that need to run on anything more than X11, but I've written dozens of PyGTK apps. I find the time-to-deliverable lower than with anything else I've ever tried. -- Life's short and hard, kind of like a bodybuilding elf. Jon Nelson <jnelson-openvpn@xxxxxxxxxxx> ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |