Portable .Net and MONO Differences

Question

I've been following/using Mono for a while for .NET development in Linux. After reading about this recent controversy and the link this article provides to DotGNU Portable .NET I wanted to know your experiences with both implementations, and what the palpable diferences between these two projects are. For instance, I had no idea that Portable .NET implemented System.Windows.Forms.

Answer 1

I think one aspect of the answer is to look at project activity.

Here is Pnet's: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dotgnu-pnet/

Here is Mono's: https://github.com/mono/mono/commits

Pnet seems to get activity a couple of times a week. Mono gets activity a couple of times an hour.

Pnet's latest release is 0.8 from March '07, Mono's latest release is 2.4.2 this week.

As for controversy, if there are patents that are going to torpedo Mono, they are going to apply equally to Pnet.