[Mono-list] SPAM-LOW: Re: Thoughts on Mono on Windows

[Charlie Poole]

It wasn't a suggestion that the mono project do it, which
I think is a bad idea. I was just trying to indicate the
relative level of difficuty and point the way for a user
to do it in specific, targeted cases. 

Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Charlie 

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> [mailto:mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Atsushi Eno
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:30 AM
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> Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Mono-list] Thoughts on Mono on Windows
> 
> Even if we do the "right" thing, it will break some Windows 
> components due to not supported features and then your OS 
> gets unstable.
> For example, it may break Windows Cardspace support (infocard.exe).
> 
> Unless you want others suffer from OS unstability, I don't 
> think it's worth doing it.
> 
> Atsushi Eno
> 
> 
> Charlie Poole wrote:
> > Hi Stifu,
> > 
> >> Like adding an option in the context menu (right click the 
> exe / "Run 
> >> with Mono"), or even setting Mono as the default .NET 
> framework, if 
> >> that's even possible.
> > 
> > It's trivial to do this badly, a little harder to do right. :-)
> > 
> > Badly: Create an entry in the registry for file type .exe, 
> such that 
> > Run with Mono... runs mono.exe with the executaboe as an 
> argument. Why 
> > is this bad? Because you'll see it on all exes, both managed and 
> > unmanaged.
> > 
> > Right: Create a Windows shell extension that examines the exe file 
> > first to see if it's managed and only then display the menu item. 
> > You'll need to know COM and Windows Shell Extensions to do that.
> > 
> > A simple workaround is to just create shortcuts on a case by case 
> > purpose. That's what NUnit does in it's install, for example.
> > 
> > Charlie
> > 
> > 
> > 
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