[Mono-osx] Potential missing symlink creation issue for 2.6.4_3

[Jacob Page]

We may have uncovered an issue with the installation of Mono 2.6.4_3 on
OS X.  We recently did a public beta release, and part of our
application's install process is to install Mono.  However, after
everything was installed, our application failed to launch on the users'
computers.  Our application launch script executes our main assembly by
running /usr/bin/mono with the assembly as a command-line argument.  On
a clean install of 2.6.4_3, we found that /usr/bin/mono symbolic link
was no-longer generated.  I guess running it worked for us because
something else established that link (MonoDevelop?  Older versions of
the framework?).

 

Is using the /usr/bin/mono link even the "right way" to launch
Mono-based applications?  If so, I guess this is a bug report.  If not,
what is the recommended practice?  Directly invoking
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands/mono, or is there a file
type association for .exe files?

 

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Jacob

 

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