Thanks for clarifying.
And on a tangent, I guess the WPF thing was expected. But! I also thought WPF is mostly a re-implementation of all the windows widgets on top of a framebuffer - it doesn't use native win32 buttons, dropdowns, text rendering, etc etc...?
Re:Understanding .NET 2015
by seanmcdirmid on Thursday February 26, 2015 @06:54PM
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It doesn't depend on Win32, but MilCore depends on DirectX 9, so I guess it would be hard to port to other platforms.
It's not a reimplementation but a gradual publish of existing code, upgraded to meet the required standards (some of it was not written with being open in mind).
WPF will not be available on non-Windows platforms. That has always been the case and will remain so - it has a far to deep integration with the OS for it to ever be platform independent and a reimplementation would be an absolutely ginormous effort.