mono in fc5

Tonight Mono lands in rawhide, and will be included in FC5. We’re happy to enable another convenient method to use our core desktop platform. In this sense it joins all of the other enabling tools we have, including pygtk and java-gnome for Java. It’s already been used to build some pretty neat apps, including beagle, f-spot, and tomboy. We’ve been the longest holdout in shipping mono. This was for a variety of reasons; Some were business-related and others were strategic in nature but those don’t really matter right now. In the end we came to the conclusion that it should be part of our offerings. And we’re happy that we’re able to help heal the rift that was slowly growing in the GNOME community.