[Mono-list] Moonlight 1.0 released!!!

[Abe Gillespie]

It's important to point out that Mono != Moonlight.  As far as I know,
Moonlight is largely non-managed code which doesn't have much to do
with the CLR.  Moonlight is an execution engine just as the Mono
binary is.  You run .Net programs via Mono on Linux like this:

> mono myapp.exe

Mono is a non-managed execution environment.  You might think of your
browser doing something like this:

> moonlight mywebapp.dll

So it's the porting of the moonlight binary / plug-in from one
platform to the next that is necessary.

-Abe

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Geoff Norton <gnorton at novell.com> wrote:
> Kornel,
>
>  Moonlight works on many many more architectures and platforms than
> that, we just only provide binaries for Linux x86 and x86_64, and the
> same is true of the Microsoft Media Pack.
>
> -g
>
> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 14:09 +0100, Kornél Pál wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a reason that only Linux on x86 and x86_64 is supported? I
>> know little about Moonlight but since it's based on Mono I belive that
>> a lot broader range of platforms could possibly be supported with
>> small efforts.
>>
>> Kornél
>>
>> 2009/1/20 Rusty Howell <rhowell at novell.com>:
>> > Hey folks,
>> >
>> > We're very pleased to announce the release of Moonlight 1.0!  The
>> > Firefox plugin is available at http://go-mono.com/moonlight for Linux 32
>> > and 64 bit platforms. A tarball of Moonlight is available at
>> > http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/moon/moon-1.0.tar.bz2
>> >
>> > As always, any bugs found can be submitted to us at
>> > http://mono-project.com/Bugs .
>> >
>> > We're now looking forward to Moonlight 2.0 and the managed Silverlight
>> > goodness.
>> >
>> > Thanks again.
>> >
>> > Rusty Howell
>> > Moonlight QA
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