Robert Jordan wrote:
I know there is a bug open about it, i know there is a control panel work around. But really, ASP.Net development with mono is completely unuseable for real world situations on any platform. This is despite the fact that most of it is pretty much there waiting to be used.
I don't agree with this point.
...
Serious development implies a staging/development server,
so I simply don't care whether I have to restart Apache
or not: it's just a script that gets called after a
sucessful build.
There are 3 issues:
1) In a large virtual host environment - this situation is not workable from a support side of things (see the mono forge forums as an example http://monoforge.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60)
2) Not all programmers are sys admins. Not all sysadmins coming to mono are familiar with linux (which is currently the only way to do ASP.Net). I'm hardly a computer newbie, but getting a system up and running with mono has taken a lot longer than is needed due to the fact that i have needed to learn a new operating system, new installation method, new web server, Mono installation and configuration (thats fine) on a system that to be fair not all people will find as user friendly as their current operating system. Suggesting that they just whip up a script to restart the server is not going to work for everyone.
3) What is wrong with just saying under the ASP.Net section of the website "works on linux, requires apache restart for reloading dll's". The curious dont get annoyed when they download and set everything up only to find this issue which that have to search the web to find out about. The comfortable know exactly what needs to be done and can handle it. The - "im waiting for a drop in replacement" people dont waste their time.
The effect overall atm is that people who are comfy with .Net, apache and linux will have no problems doing asp.net development with Mono. But how large a segment of the industry do you think that is compared to people who know .Net and IIS and want to try out Mono ?
Regards, Nik
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