Without putting everyone to sleep with a long winded hitory lesson on
the Mono Combined Installer for Win32, I would like to clarify a few
points that may be helpfull in this conversation.
I did not originally conceived the idea of the batch files, these files
and technique for launching the many different mono runtime and
development executables were there when Gonzalo Paniagua Javier put out
the first Mono Windows installer almost at the same time when Mono
reached release 1.0. However, in time I grew attach to that pattern and
thought it was somewhat of a stroke of genius, to do it like such and
not polute the system's enviroment variables. This open the door to
allow paralell intallation of the Mono installers and to permit
complete transparency between Microsoft .NET Framework SDK and Runtime.
Folks advocating for the Mono Combined Installer eliminating the batch
files and announcing the precense of such utilities as ilasm.exe (which
one our Mono one or the Microsoft SDK one? :S ) should be ready to
answer to a torrent of emails from both MS Windows .NET developers and
our own Mono only Windows developers when things start to collide and
react adversly.
Keep in mind that unlike the Linux or maybe even Mac OS X versions of
our redistributable binaries, the Windows installer was design to
co-exist with but not limited to the following evironments, tools and
applications:
-- Microsoft .NET Framework SDK 1.x - 2.x
-- Microsoft .NET Framework Runtime 1.x - 2.x
-- Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the Prj2Make Visual Studio Add-in
-- Gtk# Win32 Installer for the MS .NET Framework SDK
-- Gtk# Win32 Installer for the MS .NET Framework Runtime
-- GTK Win32 Ported applications like (Gimp, Gaim, Gnumeric, AbiWord)
In conclusion, I look forward to the upcoming release of the new
installer and still remain comitted to help out my fellow community
members, but thought it may be a good idea to share these points.
Paco
Daniel Morgan wrote:
Hopefully, you can continue allowing the Mono Win32 installers to
allow parallel installs.
I need the ability to have multiple versions of mono installed. Some
application working in one version, such as, Mono 1.1.6 do not work in
Mono 1.1.8.
Wade Berrier wrote:
Hi Kornél,
I'm working on the windows installer and it should be finished
shortly. I'm shooting for today but it may be tomorrow.
The good news is that after I'm done automating it the installers will
be released in parallel with the mono releases.
Your suggestions are very much appreciated.
I believe (Paco, correct me if I'm wrong) the reason Paco used batch
files instead of setting up environment variables was so that multiple
mono versions could be installed in parallel.
I will look into packaging libgdiplus with the installer. I think
that's a great idea.
Wade
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 20:08 +0200, Kornél Pál wrote:
Hi,
Is anyone working on it? When will it be released?
Some suggestions:
I don't like to have bat files in bin directory while having
executables in
lib directory. I think environment variables should be set in Windows
instead of using batch files. And I would like to have an option to add
mono\bin directory to PATH.
Some others from the archive:
http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-devel-list/2005-September/014803.html
http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-devel-list/2005-September/014817.html
Kornél
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