[Mono-list] Advantages to Using Mono

Doug douglas.linder at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 09:29:22 EDT 2011


Feel like a bit of a downer here given the other responses, but I would like
to give you fair warning:

MVC 3 support is new in 2.10, and it's buggy. Not hugely (sites run~) but
you'll hit bugs, and not being able to debug the code on the server make
tracking them down a huge hassle. Like someone else said, you'll want to
build off the latest from github.

I can't strongly enough recommend building, deploying and running
integration tests on _every commit_, you'll save yourself from rollback hell
when you find a few days later that for some mysterious reason your database
driver / IOC / whatever has stopped working suddenly.

I can't really recommend mono as a target for an MVC 3 app, given personal
experience.

~
Doug.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:08 AM, spamname5 <spamname5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> I'm trying to make a case for using Mono for a new project coming up and
> was
> hoping that this list could help me with that decision.  The situation we
> are in is that we have a smallish development team with extensive
> experience
> working .net with visual studio 2010.  We would like to develop a new high
> availability web application using jQuery and jQueryUI within a MVC
> framework while utilizing the development tools in visual studios.  We
> currently have a web farm consisting of linux servers running apache (and
> hosting some legacy products that can't get moved) and the shear cost of
> new
> hardware plus Microsoft license fees for those webservers is forcing us to
> search for another solution.   Here seemingly enters Mono.   Seems that
> mono
> would be a great fit since we could use mono-tools assist in the
> development
> in VS2010, as well as using the VS2010 debugging tools and then deploy to
> our current apache server farm updated to run mod_mono.   There is a bit of
> hesitation however involved with some parties that mono will not provide
> the
> speed/reliability of a fully native windows solution.  Do people think
> running mono in this configuration would be reasonable close to running IIS
> when considering speed and reliability?  In addition if we are using the
> mono tools migration analysis can we be pretty confident that deployment
> will be fairly free of compatibility issues?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks for you assistance
>
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