On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:26:31 -0400, "Chris Howie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:22 PM, codetale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I want to know: >> 1. bin and lib (mono runtime) are quite large in size (about 160mb), is > it >> possible to reduce it size by removing some some files, I just have to > make >> it possible to run pure .Net 2.0 application, others version are not >> consider. >> If it possible to, please note me which are save to remove. > > As an independent software developer not affiliated with Novell, I > would advise against bundling at all. You would be using disk space > on your target machine for something that can be shared between > applications anyway. If you are deploying to a Windows machine then > the Microsoft .NET runtime should be easily installable, and if you > are deploying to Linux then many distributions already have Mono > packages. Simply instruct your users to install them.
Apart from the point that some might argue otherwise (thinking of mac-style application deployment, almost everything in one folder) I see one big usecase for this: You can put your software on an USB stick/CD/medium with all requirements (nice for portability) and can run it without installation (nice if you don't have the required permissions, both on Windows/Linux) for example in corporate environments. So I like the idea for some stuff, although I agree with your opinion in general. Regards, Ben _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
