[Mono-dev] How can I build a minimal mono runtime system?

[Robert Jordan]

On 21.12.2010 03:30, CodeSlinger wrote:
>
> Thanks Robert, that helps a lot. I would love to see the developers add even
> more modularity to the configuration. I seem to remember some more web stuff
> - perhaps asp.net, that it would be nice to be able to configure out as I
> don't need it.

This would just add fluff to the build system. The overall
requirements of the runtime don't change at all if some assemblies
could be removed by configuration.

Distributions won't need it because they are packaging binaries
taken from a full installation, while people like you could simply
remove the assemblies/tools they don't need.

Removing assemblies at configure time is even less useful
than manually removing assemblies because every change of
the modularity would require a full rebuild. This is a big
waste of time and resources for almost no use.

Robert