Wither Whidbey Rotor?
on 02.07.06, 07:26pm in .net • comments (3)
Now that .NET 2.0 has been out for several months, I was thinking about the shared source CLI (SSCLI, or "rotor"). The last thing I saw on it was that it was to be released after Whidbey’s release, but I haven’t heard anything in almost a year.
I was really looking forward to playing with this on Tiger (it looks like the last release was only brought up to Panther). Any one have any idea what happened to it? From what I can tell, it looks pretty dead.
blowmage (February 7, 2006 @ 7:56 pm)
It looks like MS Research is still on track to release the 2.0 version within the next six months.
http://research.microsoft.com/sscli/
Have you considered using Mono instead? I haven’t used it very much on OSX, but Cocoa# looks really interesting.
http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:OSX
Neil Cowburn (February 8, 2006 @ 1:27 am)
I’ve been waiting for this too. I remember Brad Abrams posting some job opportunities on the ROTOR team back in August ‘05 ( http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2005/08/03/447313.aspx ). He also confirmed in December that there will be a ROTOR 2.0 ( http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/brada/archive/2003/12/13/50953.aspx ).
According to some of the posts on the MonoOSX mailing list, Mono on OS X is having a few issues in the last couple of builds.
Steve (February 8, 2006 @ 7:40 am)
That being “December” of 2003.