[Mono-dev] Future of Mono's .NET Code Sharing

[Johnnie Odom]

I write a lot of small sysadmin utilities using Mono and one of the big selling points with the .NET libraries I use is that they generally do work across Windows/Mac/Linux without recompilation. I think the future for Microsoft is to be as easily cross-platform as possible. I would strongly recommend going down the Mono path here.
Johnnie

>>> James Bellinger via Mono-devel-list <mono-devel-list at lists.dot.net> 11/30/16 11:15 AM >>>
Well, *they* could switch. My own platform specific libraries do 
detection. Anything else just ends up with lots of vaguely shareable, 
similar, but unshared code. In practice what it means is a developer is 
going to forget to package anything but the Windows version. That may be 
the idea. Making the library *just work*, without the developer having 
to worry about platforms, is best.

I have two libraries I maintain that support both .NET Framework and 
.NET Micro Framework (and Arduino -- libraries for embedded devices), 
and due to how Microsoft ended up putting things in different 
assemblies, even the same classes, it's a cluttered #ifdef mess. Some 
are missing this overload or that. I have to have separate solution 
files. In the future I'll probably just ditch Micro Framework support. 
It's terrible, a hassle to maintain, and even more of a hassle to 
support, debug and test.

It's probably better to pull Microsoft out of the mud as best as 
possible instead of sinking with them.

James


On 11/29/2016 10:56 PM, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello Jerod,
>
>
>     Question as a followup:
>
>     "This means that some of the work that we will have to do will
>     involve either adjusting the CoreFX code to work in the way that
>     Mono works, or give up on our tradition of having the same
>     assemblies work across all platforms"
>
>     Is there a preference/leaning one way or another on that point
>     yet, or is it still being investigated?
>
>
> We will have to explore this when we get there.
>
> My personal preference is to use the Mono model, but the maintainers 
> of CoreFX likely have their own personal preference to keep their 
> model and they own that code, so we might have to either get creative 
> with the solution that glues CoreFX code in Mono, or adjust Mono.   
> Neither is easy :-)
>
> Miguel.
>
>
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