[Mono-list] Re: my suggestion

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

>     it's so glad to see C# program can run on Unix-like OS. That
> really enhances the portability of this new promising language. 
>     I'm working in a research lab that has 2 servers running on Red
> Hat linux(Itanium CPU) and Tru64 Unix(Alpha CPU). actually the
> programs running on servers don't need GUI. they just require the
> computation power of the servers. I suggest that you can seperate the
> Mono into 2 kinds of release for each version, 1 that has all the .NET
> staff including GUI part(which i think it's a tough work for unix),
> the other 1 that excludes the GUI part. The release mode can be quite
> like wxWindows(http://www.wxwindows.org/) which is a cross-platform
> C++ library. It has "wxBase" as a library for programming non-GUI
> (console) applications.
>     Because the graphics libray that Mono depends are not available on
> my lab's 2 servers. so i can't run my C# program on that at all. 
> However the program doesn't need any GUI. so the above is my
> suggestion. just hope i can soon run your Mono on my servers. Thank
> you.

If you lack the graphics libraries at compile time, Mono wont use them. 
So it should be just fine.