[Mono-osx] Windows Forms on the Mac

[Miguel de Icaza]

> Ok - I did this and it reported that the DISPLAY environment variable 
> wasn't set and that the X11 server couldn't be found.
> 
> When I then ran the same program from xterm it worked fine! Not only 
> that but the backspace key works in the IronPython console - sweet.

Great news!

> Thanks for your help and sorry for the noise. I've now enabled unstable 
> packages in Fink and can see that it has an old version of MonoDevelop 
> (0.9-1022). I'm trying to install that but it has been running for a 
> loooooooooong time. :-)

Oh, that is so ancient I would not even bother using that.   We are at
0.14 (with releases coming out roughly every 2-3 months) and about to do
0.15.

0.9 was apparently released in November 2005, that predates Mono 1.2.