[Mono-list] Minimal requrements

[George Birbilis]

> > Has anyone made something similar to the .net compact framework?
>
> We're thinking about doing something better:-)
> The compact framework has a limited set of features, but they are
> fixed, so it's an inflexible design.
> With mono you can create reduced versions of the assemblies so that
> they match your requirements. We're investigating a tool to do
> this automatically, in the meantime you can experiment by
> tweaking the build files to build only the classes you need.

but since .NET supports dynamic class loading, removing stuff can be a
potential source of runtime errors (class not found)

the problem is you can't run an app through a tool to tell you which classes
it uses, since it might be loading some by name and using them
programmatically via interfaces those "plugin" classes implement

as for a CF-compatible version of Mono, it would be nice to have, since one
would be able to build IL code that is working on both Linux-based and
PocketPC-based devices without changes

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