[Mono-list] Re: New Mono.Runtime.GetDisplayName() method

[Kornél Pál]

Hi,

> Just to make the discussion even longer:
> wouldn't be less intrusive to use the environment for
> the display string? Something like that:
>
> in mono/mono/mini/driver.c
>
> g_setenv ("MONO_RUNTIME_VERSION", whatever);

My reason not to do this is that this information has to come from the
runtime. And if it comes from an environment variable or AppDomain.GetData
for example it's not guaranteed that it comes from the runtime and can be
set on any runtimes or even can be modified.

Kornél