Well, it is an ASP.NET application, but since ASP.NET is being compiled by mono, then it's a mono compiler issue.
This is a website, so we have index.aspx (and index.aspx.cs) that is a child of cmsMaster.master (and cmsMaster.master.cs) that is a child of uiMaster.master (and uiMaster.master.cs). The first two levels get compiled, index.aspx and cmsMaster.master. The issue is when cmsMaster tries to access the site UI template (uiMaster.master) uiMaster does not exist, it did not compile and so cmsMaster throws an error that it's missing the reference. It's just a simple masterpage, wouldn't creating an entire project and compiling a single page be quite a lot of work for something that's just a bug in the compiler? I don't think that our entry devs could grasp the idea that if they need to update a classname in the ui master that they need to open a different project, edit the file, compile it to a DLL, and then copy then copy that compiled DLL into the website that they are working on. Again, that's a ton of work to get around a bug. I also don't think that the Board of Directors would be happy to know about such a cobb-job of a way to get the website running. Since this is a website, we could go back to Windows, but then management costs would go up, hardware costs would go up, software costs would go up, security would go down, stability would go down, speed would go down. I really have zero interest in the pitfalls of running Windows as our primary application infrastructure again. I'd like to focus on a resolution to the deficiency within the mono compiler. If there is a patch for the bug, I'd like to know of that. If there is a call that can be made, possibly the sub-master creating a var of the master to kick it to compile, I'd like to know how. If there is a flag to compile the uiMaster on every request (where it's outdated), I'd like to hear that option. If there is going to be nothing to help developers and corporations use the mod-mono software, and leave the bugs in place, disallowing any sort or real world use, I'd like to know that so that I can re-arch every single application that will be releasing this year. It's a very simple issue, as I see it, the compiler doesn't recurse all the way down that's needed, as the original Windows compiler does. It seems like it assumes there is only 1 master, ever, and doesn't even try/check for others that might be required. -- View this message in context: http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/compile-Masterpage-s-masterpage-tp4662329p4662346.html Sent from the Mono - ASP.NET mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Mono-aspnet-list mailing list Mono-aspnet-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-aspnet-list
