[MonoDevelop] EXTERNAL: Re: MoMA?

Mon Sep 13 12:44:27 EDT 2010

We're not hooked up to the internet, though, so that shouldn't be an issue, right?

-----Original Message-----
From: Abe Gillespie [mailto:abe.gillespie at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 9:41 AM
To: Vogelman, Julie
Cc: monodevelop-list at lists.ximian.com
Subject: Re: [MonoDevelop] EXTERNAL: Re: MoMA?

If it's a classified system then you may want to think twice about
MoMA.  Although it is anonymous, MoMA does send information back to
Novell about your app.

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Vogelman, Julie
<julie.vogelman at lmco.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the responses.
>
> Quandary: Unfortunately, I meant that I do need to request my company to allow me to download it. It's actually going to be downloaded to a classified system, which requires approval.
>
> Thanks for all the examples as to what may not port directly. I do use the System.XML.XmlTextReader class (if that's what you're referring to), so I'll be sure to request version 2.6 or higher.
>
> I'm not totally new to Linux, although to Red Hat, yet.
>
> Devin:
> These are good questions. I'm not sure how my company will determine what to download - whether I will be telling them or whether they already have some process in place to do it. In terms of updates, I'll have to find out about that as well. Unfortunately, around here it seems like we just continue using the original version of software until we have some sort of problem that we believe could be corrected by an update to the software - and we may in fact need to put in another request for that update.
>
> Julie
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Quandary [mailto:quandary82 at hailmail.net]
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 3:53 AM
> To: Abe Gillespie
> Cc: Vogelman, Julie; monodevelop-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [MonoDevelop] MoMA?
>
> MoMa is short for mono migration analyzer.
> MoMa is a tool written in .NET.
> It runs wherever you have a working .NET/mono version installed.
> That includes Windows and Linux. And I am talking about the same binary
> on both platforms.
>
> MoMa just checks whether the Linux runtime supports all the methods you
> used in the assemblies & executables you give it to check.
>
> And you don't need to request it, you can download it right here:
> http://www.mono-project.com/MoMA
> You don't even need to install it, just unpack and run moma.exe.
>
> For example, if, in the program you want to port, you made calls to the
> Windows API, or used COM interoperability, or used methods that aren't
> yet implemented in mono, MoMa will show you those.
>
> It won't show you for example if you used the wrong directory separator
> chars, such as "\", which need to be "/" in Linux (always use
> System.IO.Path.DirectorySeparatorChar to keep it compatible). And it
> also won't show you if you referenced an image with filename XY.JPG,
> while the actual filename is XY.jpg, which will work on Windows, because
> Windows is not case-sensitive, but which won't work on Linux, because
> Linux is case-sensitive (System.IO.Exception "File not found").
> I think you can switch off the case-sensitivy in mono using an
> environment variable.
> But you might just want to make a vfat file with the dd command on Linux
> and mount it into a directory, so you'll have a case-insensitive
> filesystem to start with.
>
> And no, you don't need MoMa, it doesn't do the work for you.
> But MoMa's usefullness is in showing you how much effort a Linux port
> requires, or whether it is possible at all, and where you run into problems.
> That certainly is very very helpful, because else you spend time in
> searching errors when MoMa could have already pointed you out in advance
> where those problems are.
>
> Mono 2.4 also has some errors in System.XML.TextReader/Writer, meaning
> the overloaded method where you can pass to the XML reader/writer the
> text encoding is missing... This error has been fixed in mono 2.6 and it
> now works wonderfully. So you need to look that you have a recent
> version of mono installed, or you might spend quite some time on running
> into bugs that have already been fixed.
>
> I might be wrong, but to me, it sounds like you are completely new to Linux.
> If you are serious in porting an application to Linux, I definitely
> recommend you familiarize yourself with this operating system FIRST.
> It's not like it's difficult, but there is a certain learning curve
> which requires quite some time. And RedHat is not exactly a very
> beginner-friendly Linux distro.
>
> I recommend you download a free Linux image from Ubuntu.com (Ubuntu is a
> very beginner-friendly Linux distro), install it in the VirtualBox
> (www.virtualbox.org) virtual machine on your private machine, and
> install Linux there virtualized.
> Then you can play around a bit, find out how to install and remove
> programs, install monodevelop, how to start programs from the command
> line (not quite as in windows), etc.
> If you run into Linux problems, or don't know how to do something, then
> you can always ask at ubuntuforums.org, which is a nice forum  for such
> things.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 09/10/2010 09:38 PM, Abe Gillespie wrote:
>> MoMA's helpful and can be run on Linux.  However, there was a port to
>> Silverlight and can be run over the web but I can no longer find the
>> link and past requests to this list haven't been fruitful.
>>
>> -Abe
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Vogelman, Julie
>> <julie.vogelman at lmco.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the responses the other day regarding RedHat.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So, I'm trying to figure out exactly what I will need for porting my Windows
>>> C# code to RedHat. Unfortunately, I have to go through a process to get it
>>> approved by my company, so I can't just download anything.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I see a product called MoMA can be used to identify the porting that will
>>> need to be done before you start the actual port. I assume this is run on
>>> Windows? Or could it also be run on Linux? Currently, I am in the process of
>>> requesting Mono for the RedHat machine. But do I also need to be requesting
>>> MoMA for the Windows machine? Or do you even think MoMA is necessary and/or
>>> very helpful?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>>
>>> Julie
>>>
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