Re: [Mono-dev] Updated CentOS/RHEL packages?

2011-01-24 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi Gentlemen, I share your need for RHEL packages and look forward to trying out your repo. If I can help, I will. Many thanks, Vlad ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel

Re: [Mono-dev] Adding privatekey support to X509Store

2010-10-20 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi Pablo, Your interest in improving Mono's CryptoServiceProvider offerings is very exciting. Your experience seems to be leading you towards an OpenSSL binding of some kind. May I suggest that you at least review other cryptographic providers like Mozilla's Network Security Services (NSS) or th

[Mono-dev] Latest packages

2010-08-24 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, Has anyone build gtk-sharp-2 and the others (art-sharp, glib-sharp, gnome-sharp, etc) for RHEL/CentOS using the new (2.6.7) /opt/novell/mono based packages? I am the opposite of a gentoo-ish build everything from source guy. I like packages and I happen to be in the unfortunate position of ne

[Mono-dev] C# Binding for elektra

2009-08-25 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, Is someone planning to write a .Net binding to Elektra (1)? Like GConf, Elektra is a place to put configuration data. It is different in that it would be accessible even when you want to run without X and Gtk (and the many other GConf dependencies). I need this for some buildbot testing of

Re: [Mono-dev] Beyond C#

2009-07-27 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
> 2009/7/26 Scott Thomas: > > That's my piece. I think we should do it. Respond! > > I think this is a good idea. It's about time we embrace and extend (TM) > C#. > > -- > Seo Sanghyeon Ditto. Can't we just get this in through ECMA and Microsoft would just have to go along?

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Regex not working the same as MS .NET

2009-07-27 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
> oh man, am i ever embarrassed... you are right on. :blush: > > with that change, the code works as expected. > > Thank you! > --Dan Gentry > > > I would suspect the \r\n part of the pattern. On UNIX systems new > line > > does > > not include the \r. > > > > --- > > Adar Wesley You could al

Re: [Mono-dev] Gtk# 2.x release status and thoughts on 3.0

2009-05-28 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
> With the gtk+ 3.0 release planned in the next year, we have therefore > decided to hold the 2.x release series of Gtk# at the 2.12 API version, > and we plan to switch trunk from its current 2.14 target over to 3.0 > when the gtk+ team gets closer to releasing. Is there any chance of migrating t

[Mono-dev] Installers

2009-05-19 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
> From: Mike Kestner > > Feedback appreciated. In particular I'd like to hear from those of you > using the current Gtk# for .net installer or those considering win32 > ports in the future. Which would you prefer, one installer or two? If > one, should it remain the Gtk# for .net installer for h

Re: [Mono-dev] Red Hat/Fedora packaging

2009-05-12 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
I never liked my idea so if there is a better way, then by all means lets go with that. >>> A better approach would be to remove the requirement that the .so be in the same directory as the CIL, and instead probe architecture-specific directories for the AOT'd code, e.g. ${_libdir}/mono/aot/[??

Re: [Mono-dev] Red Hat/Fedora packaging

2009-05-12 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, 1. If today's assemblies are noarch and tomorrow's are not, why not conform to noarch guidelines today and conform to arch dependent guidelines when the time comes? 2. The problem is broader than Mono's assemblies. My original question is based on ndesk-dbus. It is a fine managed only impl

[Mono-dev] Red Hat/Fedora packaging

2009-05-12 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
The following was taken from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Mono File Locations Mono packages should install assemblies to %{_libdir} rather than /usr/lib or %{_datadir}. In most cases the preference is for %{_libdir}/PACKAGENAME. We use %{_libdir} because we do not consider mono pac

[Mono-dev] inherited event

2009-02-25 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, I was wondering why events have to be in local scope to be called. If the event is in a base class, shouldn't I be able to invoke it? This is not a bug in Mono as the behavior is the same on MS.Net, but I was hoping for some insight. Thanks, Vlad namespace TestEvents { p

[Mono-dev] System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name

2009-01-20 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Should this return something on Linux (OpenSuse 11.0)? Thanks, Vlad using System; class Eg { static void Main() { Console.WriteLine(Environment.UserName); //This works Console.WriteLine(System.Threading.Thread.Cu

Re: [Mono-dev] About System.Net.Security.SslStream

2008-11-21 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
> > I would like to reiterate my request for a binding to nss. > > I realize demand is not high, I just want "every vote counted" :). > > IMO if you want your vote to count then you should open a bug report* > (severity Enhancement) otherwise it will just stay "noise" on the > mailing-list. As y

Re: [Mono-dev] About System.Net.Security.SslStream

2008-11-12 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Sebastien, > On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 15:12 +0800, ?? wrote: > > Hello! I'm using mono 1.9.2 and trying to write a small program using > > SslStream. The program runs as server side program. > > > > I found if I write the program as > > serverCertificate = X509Certificate.CreateFromCertFile(certifi

Re: [Mono-dev] FIPS 140 cryptography

2008-10-17 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
> > The Java community has JSS. Would asking for a MonoSS be asking too > > much? > > It depends from who you're asking ;-) Think of me as an ISV that wants to produce applications for the US government. The entire federal government including DoD is mandated to use FIPS compliant crypto librar

[Mono-dev] Regex and Unicode

2008-07-09 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hello list members, Since .Net regular expressions don't do POSIX, I replace POSIX character classes by Unicode ones. See http://www.regular-expressions.info/posixbrackets.html for the translation table I used. I ran into a problem with POSIX Description ASCII Unic

[Mono-dev] Gdk and Cygwin

2008-01-24 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, I am in the unfortunate position of having to run Windows because my company uses exchange and will not open IMAP or POP so I can read mail from Thunderbird. So I run VMWare on Windows with an OpenSuse VM. I run CygWin and use SSH to forward the display back to Windows/Cygwin. It works amaz

[Mono-dev] Mono.Security + SecureString

2007-12-12 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, As you know, in .Net Framework 2.0 Microsoft added the SecureString class to keep passwords and other private data hidden. They did not add SecureString to the hashing or encryption/decryption providers to allow developers to take advantage of this new class. Mono does not use it in PKCS12 o

[Mono-dev] private members

2007-12-10 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, Given the following program, I have a question about Mono and .Net. This is not a bug in Mono because I think the same thing happens on Windows, but I was hoping someone could explain it to me. The line below with the comment is surprising because it is accessing a private variable of anothe

Re: [Mono-dev] [PATCH] Fix for RegEx parser.

2007-11-29 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi Arina, > I've added a new set of tests for regular expressions and a correction to the parser.cs for passing the test PerlTest.Trial0990(). You mention a PerlTest along with regular expressions. This is very interesting. I was under the impression that Microsoft Regexes <> POSIX Regex <> Per

Re: [Mono-dev] VMWear player for Mono development

2007-11-06 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi Miguel, I would love to see a Xen DomU guest image as well. I realize that VMWare has a free offering, but it is not open source. Xen's hypervisor was built into Microsoft's Virtualization server. It is part of OpenSuse and the new Linux kernel has a lot of it baked in. Mono should run on a

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono version numbering

2007-10-31 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
On the other hand, just today I received an email with this text: It is C# based (some of the code uses .Net 2.0 features so it's not mono-ready code). The editor . I tried out the tool and aside from some typical path issues, the app ran great. Kudos to the WinForms developers

Re: [Mono-dev] MonoSummit: Planning the Sessions

2007-10-30 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
I am also hoping for webcasts of some kind. As a member of the Mono community, I feel a sense of pride whenever Mono gains respect on the Linux platform. As a consequence, I am hoping that more "must have" applications get developed with Mono. Whether it is games, tools or whatever, I truly lo

Re: [Mono-dev] Replicating System.Web.Script.Serialization bugs

2007-10-15 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
{ > + if ( (obj is String) && > (((String)obj).Length == 0) ) > + { > + return null; > + } > + } > + Vladimir Gisz

Re: [Mono-dev] FIPS 140 cryptography

2007-10-11 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
ce such a thing will happen? I am a little peon doing R&D hoping to move the Army toward accepting Mono. Any help you can give me would be much appreciated! Many Thanks, Vladimir Giszpenc DSCI Contractor Supporting US Army CERDEC S&TCD IAD Tactical Network Protection Branch (732) 532-89

[Mono-dev] FIPS 140 cryptography

2007-10-11 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, The 100% managed implementation of Mono.Security is an elegant solution but the U.S. government may not be as trusting as I am. Are there any plans to get official FIPS 140-2 certification? This would go a long way to ensuring net worthiness. Thanks, Vladimir Giszpenc DSCI Contractor

[Mono-dev] more Gendarme rules

2007-06-11 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, In programming spelling counts and case usually matters as well. A perfect example is in properties. //Microsoft says we should no longer use m_ or hungarian notation //note the lower case first letter private Type propertyName; public Type PropertyName { get { return this.Pro

[Mono-dev] Idea for gendarme

2007-06-11 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, Until recently, I have been able to stay away from threads. I assumed the event handlers in the GUI would be threaded enough and all was good in the world. Alas, my Gtk# application needs worker threads to be responsive. I use the anonymous delegates heavily though probably still not enough

[Mono-dev] Subversion on MonoDevelop

2007-05-28 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, The subversion add-in has made my MonoDevelop experience nice and smooth. Yesterday, it hit a slight bump when my subversion server certificate expired. SVN from the command line was able to get a nice message: Error validating server certificate for 'https://myhost.myserver.com:443': - Th

[Mono-dev] Interlocked

2007-05-28 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, This is probably a question for Microsoft, but since I am using Mono I will ask you fine folks. System.Threading.Interlocked.Read() addresses 64 bit atomicity. If I use the shortcut "int", is it System.Int32 or System.Int64 depending on the architecture the code is compiled on? If that is t

[Mono-dev] XmlDocument.CreateElement

2007-05-12 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
Hi, I don't have Windows so I could not test this on the .Net CLR but the behavior I am getting seems weird. If I call xmlDocument.CreateElement("foo:bar"), the "foo" gets removed if I don't pass in the namespace as the second parameter. Is this by design? See attachment for example... Thanks,

[Mono-dev] Mono enhancements

2007-03-30 Thread Vladimir Giszpenc
To the Gendarme gurus, I don't know if the GC is smart enough to Dispose of resources for us, but I will assume that it does not hurt to help it. There are two patterns that Gendarme could look for. class Foo { Foo() { IDisposable resource = new Resource(); throw new System.Exce