i would be interested when a mac port is out to try it since not many
mac users exist yet compare to windows
On 19 Jan 2009, at 08:09, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Jason,
While it is true mono isn't as feature filled as the Microsoft .NET
Framework I wouldn't discount it as a viable development platform
either. The current mono build/releases is similar to .NET 2.0 which
is good enough for my purposes. I've already built and ran some test
builds on Ubuntu Linux 8.10 using SDL and the latest mono releases
and everything appears to be working fine. Although, I won't know if
everything works properly until the port is complete.
As far as converting the Genesis 3D engine to C++ that isn't going
to happen in this life time. I have already put a year into writing
the engine in C-Sharp, and for the most part it is stable and runs
great. I am not going to rewrite the entire engine from scratch.
That is way too much work.
Besides there are some things I definitely do not like about C++.
For example, the way C++ handles object serialization verses C-
Sharp. In C-Sharp if you want to serialize a load of game objects
and write them out to a file it is rather easy to do. In C++ doing
so is rather lengthy and a total pain in the rear to boot.
Another reason why I decided not to use C++ is you have to create a
native build for every platform you will be using. Since I currently
do not own a Mac myself I can't exactly compile a version for Mac OS
myself. With a .NET or Mono project you can build it on any
operating system and run it on another OS assuming it meets the
dependancies and specs. Since I do have a Ubuntu 8.x desktop here,
and I know Mac OS 10.5 uses compatible SDL and Mono libraries,
chanses are good if it runs on my Linux desktop it will run on Mac
OS with little to no changes.
Smile.
Jason Allen wrote:
Careful Tom. Mono is open source and doesn't support everything
that .NET
does. It's probably fine for small projects, but you're probably
better off
writing everything in C++ if you're going cross platform. The
majority of
open source software is great, but I would hate to depend on them to
complete a project as large as a game engine.
Jason
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