突然想到一个问题,WPF程序是否可以在Linux或者其他的OS下运行?
于是,Google了一番,答案是:WPF不行(呵呵,理由很明显,WPF需要DirectX的支持,而其他的OS基本都没有),但是轻量级的WPF-Silverlight可以在Linux或者MacOS上运行(mono)。
mono:"Silverlight implement a subset of the WPF APIs and is available on Windows, MacOS X and through our own open source effort Moonlight it is available on Linux and other Unix systems."
Link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/421764/is-wpf-on-linux-already-possible
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wpf/thread/0a4c924d-ef24-45a9-a552-6d58e5578e3a
那么,WPF是否可以在Linux上运行(理论上)?未来是否会有人做这样的事?
Link:
http://www.mono-project.com/WPF
Mono项目组的回答是:"At this point, no group in the Mono project has plans to implement Windows Presentation Foundation APIs as part of the project."
那么是否可行呢?从项目组的另一句话可见端倪:We do not have any plans because the project is too large and there has not been any serious interest from the community to make this effort move forward.
项目组的说法是too large而不是impossible,呵呵,所以还是有可行性的。