On 07/13/03 David Jeske wrote: > I was looking at using the "pnetcurses" library which maps ncurses > into C#. Portable.NET uses an attribute called DllImportMap to handle > mapping function imports to different shared library names based on > the platform. > > Miguel seemed to think it was a neat idea way back when: > > http://archive.neotonic.com/archive/mono-list/msg/2153 > > However, this hasn't show up in Mono. I'm wondering if this is > something that nobody has implemented, or if Mono has just chosen to > solve this a different way.
We're not going to implement the DllImportMap attribute, because it doesn't really solve the issue and it would be a pain to support. It doesn't solve the issue because it doesn't allow the _user_ of the assembly to decide how the dll name is mapped on a per-system or per-user basis, but only to the original developer of the assembly (or you need to change the sources in god only knows how many places and recompile). It is a support nightmare because either you export the DllImportMap attribute from mscorlib and as such the assembly won't be compatible with other runtimes, or you need to stick the attribute in all the assemblies that use it, duplicating work, bloating the code both in the assembly and in the runtime. Mono uses a different mechanism (the ddlmap entries in the configuration files described in mono-config) that addresses all the issues above and also solves the actual problem (plus it lets you map also individual method name entries). lupus -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monkeys do it better _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
