[Mono-list] Writing daemons in C#

[Miguel de Icaza]

> > I still think that the model I proposed is best, as we dont need a
> > per-OS assembly to be compiled.
> 
> But you need a per-OS shared library and the code will be slower at
> runtime. So, the two choices are:
> 
> 1) per-OS assembly
> 	* faster
> 	* smaller
> 	* easier to deploy
> 2) OS-indep assembly + OS-dependent shared library
> 	* slower
> 	* bigger
> 	* one more thing to deploy
> 
> The choice looks like a no brainer to me:-)

You also have to consider that you will need to wrap structures, for
example, lets take the `stat' structure.   That is much easier to
implement by using the scheme I suggested.

If we want to have a shared-library-less implementation the parser for
structures will probably be pretty complex to generate a c# version of
it that matches the Unix version of it.

Your turn ;)

Miguel.