> -----Original Message-----
> From: Freddy BL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:43 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Mono-list] missing "native feel" ?
>
>
> I have pointed to it, already for a year, but I think, I now
> ask again, what
> you think, about a better integration of mono in the system.
>
>
> With full native-code feeling I mean the following:
> - All libraries on Linux/Unix ends with .so instead of .dll.
> For example:
> mscorlib.so insted of mscorlib.exe
> - That "mcs program.cs" creates on Linux/Unix a program
> called "program",
> which is chmoded to -rwxr-xr-x insted of -rw-r--r--
> - That not MONO_PATH show where to look at mscorlib.so.
> Instead this it
> would be better, that Mono looks at LD_LIBRARY_PATH for
> .net-libraries.
> - better integration means also support by unix-tools. For
> example that
> "ldd" not only show the dynamic linked libraries of
> nativecode-programs. It
> would be nice, if it also shows the .net-libraries of .net-programs.
>
> That is, what I mean, with best integration in the system, so
> that there
> existing a native-feeling by using .net-programs.
>
The problem with giving it a "native" feel is that it destroys one of the
objectives of Mono...to be able to take a .Net program from Windows and
"just run it".
