[Mono-list] System.PlatformID Issues

[Jarek]

Hi!

I like the idea of mono.dll, but I think there should be a way to tell if
your application is dependent on mono or can be run on plain .NET.

Question to compiler guys: is it possible to somehow annotate (attributes ?)
mono's additions to Microsoft provided classes (I mean new enum values, new
public methods, etc). Then it would be cool if the compiler could warn about
non-microsoft extensions used in the source code.

Is it possible to do so ? I think one cannot apply attributes to enum values
but to the type as a whole, so this can be a problem...

Jarek
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oren Novotny" <osn@po.cwru.edu>
To: "'mono-list'" <mono-list@ximian.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 8:11 PM
Subject: RE: [Mono-list] System.PlatformID Issues


> That sounds like a good idea, and if I might suggest an addition:
>
> Make sure that the mono.dll is strongly named.  That way, an installer
> can add mono.dll to the GAC for all .net programs to use, rather than
> maintaining a copy of mono.dll for each program.  Once such an assembly
> is available, I'd be happy to use it for cross-platform development...
> I could use Mono's PlatformID code instead of MS's one to be sure of
> cross platform support.
>
> --Oren
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mono-list-admin@ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-admin@ximian.com]
> On
> > Behalf Of Guenther Roith
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:51 PM
> > To: Oren Novotny
> > Cc: mono-list
> > Subject: Re: [Mono-list] System.PlatformID Issues
> >
> > > How is Mono addressing the issue of extending MS's framework in this
> > > way, since I've noticed that there are a few other additions.
> Programs
> > > using those additions (to the system/corlib) will all have problems
> when
> > > on MS's framework...
> >
> > There was once a discussion about this, I think, and the result was,
> all
> > additions should be put in the "mono namespace". The best way, would
> > perhaps
> > be compile these to a new assembly mono.dll, that could be distributed
> > with
> > such programs.
> >
> > Johannes
> >
> >
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