Re: [Pnet-developers] DB connectivity

[Norbert Bollow]

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> So what is dotGNU's philosophy for non-standard .NET libraries:
> will you write your own implementation or will you rely
> upon third party work (e.g. Mono) ?

Mostly a very pragmatic philosophy:  We don't reinvent any wheels
which are round, only the square ones.  (Credit for inventing that
slogan belongs to Gopal).  What this means is that if something is
available already as GPL-compatible Free Software, and it's usable
and portable enough, then we're not interested in creating a "me
too" separate implementation except if we have an idea how to do
it much better.

There's already a bunch of stuff including SharpZipLib,  Npgsql,
ByteFX.Data in the ml-pnet module... if you're interested in
volunteering to help make more stuff available that'd be appreciated.
 :-)

Greetings, Norbert.

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