[Mono-devel-list] Determine the name and/or kind of CLI runtimeenvironment

[Jonathan Gilbert]

At 12:16 PM 01/06/2005 +0200, Kornél wrote:
>There seems not to be a good way to determine the name and version of the
>runtime, but I think the above code is good enough.
>
>> From: Ben Maurer
>> No, not today (other than my --version hack, which actually isn't all
>> that bad).
>
>--version seems to be the only way to obtain the version of Mono runtime.
>But using bash is not a good idea I think as it makes the code bash
>dependent.
>
>I tested this code on Windows and should work on Linux as well. Windows
>executes the same mono.exe as Windows searches the directory of the
>executable (mono.exe in this case) for the executable. I think this is not
>the same on Linux. How could it be ensured to execute the same mono?
[snip]

I have to point out that this would not be an issue if the following bug
were fixed the way I recommend:

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=71887

Mono would automatically reuse itself when using Process.Start to invoke
other .NET binaries. I seriously can't think of many cases where you'd want
to force the use of a *different* runtime. =/

Jonathan Gilbert