Re:Attachmate lays off Mono employees
by evo_9 on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @04:38PM
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I really wish I'd never bought MonoTouch, I think a refund should be available to us that bought it less than a year ago.
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Re:Attachmate lays off Mono employees
by jimmyjazz14 on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @04:47PM
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I think you might be jumping the gun here a little, nobody said any major changes will be happening to the Mono project, this article has not even been confirmed yet.
It's not just this. The lack of a clear plan/solution for going forward regarding the new Xcode/IB single IDE; the solution to keep using the previous version just isn't ideal. I've seen a few times in the past 6 months where major changes dropped and users were asking for really basic info/response on forums and got nothing. I'm just going to stick it out with obj-c.
they have already announced that they're working on xcode 4 integration, and just today one of the developers for MonoDevelop released a video showing that integration working.
Good to know, but poking around the monotouch website I don't see anything about this. I'd think this would be on the frontpage or the news section at the very least. Nothing about it in community either. Little things like this (not being able to find valuable info) really does kill motivation to work on this otherwise fun/interesting platform.
If you're still looking for the video: http://twitter.com/#!/migueldeicaza/status/65513868599902208
They already offer a free version that you can use to try out the platform before you commit to purchase it, so I don't see what giving refunds would solve.
Yeah that is a valid point. I understood there was a chance things might not work out because of several potential pitfalls. So buying it was my decision for sure, I accept that.
Unfortunately though the rest of my sentiment probably won't change and truthfully the video showing the 'integration' is just too much of a kludge for me to get past. I understand their are contraints outside the mono teams control, but I'm still not happy seeing that as the 'solution'. Maybe it's not the longterm solution, but as it stands right now, that's all I have to go on.
Re:Attachmate lays off Mono employees
by bettynormal on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @08:59AM
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Monotouch is a commercial product used by commercial companies that are backing their business on this development tool. Given the up and down nature of MononTouch over the last year. Apple's 3.3.1 outlawing of MonoTouch and eventual repleal and now this I would like to see the source code available or at least some escrow type availability, So we can have some confidence that we won't be left high and dry.