El mié, 11-01-2006 a las 19:35 +0000, Bill Seddon escribió: Hi Bill, > I have a couple of questions arising from my trials. The first is to > ask whether I am the only Windows user of Mono and, if not, am I alone > in experiencing problems trying to get applications to run?
I think you are not alone, we are producing applications running on top of mono and using Gtk# because we want to run .NET applications on Windows and Linux. I think the main problem you have is that you are using Windows Forms that is still not complete in mono. > It's > reasonable to ask why someone should be interested in running Mono on > Windows when the original .NET is available. Many reasons, first because you can run the same code (we are actually doing so) on windows [1] and linux platforms. Obviously, something could fail. What it could be done is to track and report those failures found so next releases gets better. >From our experience, using Mono + Gtk# to produce windows applications is getting more a more stable. From the initial releases we started to use (1.0.5) until now, Mono have increased its quality, and stability. But the point is: how alone is a .NET developer when it gets outside Windows platform? This is critical point to keep in mind if you are going to be a .NET developer. > My reason is that Mono > applications can be run without an install. .NET requires a lengthy > installation (and a reboot with 1.1 SP) that many administrators (if > not > users) will not consider. Mono can be copied on (or even run from a > memory stick). This is a good reason. > The second is to ask if there is enough testing being on Windows. The > error in the trivial example below results from trying to return the > root folder of the drive on which an assembly is located. If there is > no real motivation to support Windows, I'd welcome a statement to that > effect so that know to look for an alternative solution. Of course, > I'd > like Windows to be a supported platform but I can understand that it > may > not be priority for Novell. Maybe it is not a main target for Novell to have a mono platform running on Windows, but I'm not wrong when I say you that there are lot of interest on making mono running on Windows. Cheers! [1] http://gmovil.aspl.es > -- Francis Brosnan Blazquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Advanced Software Production Line, S.L. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list