Hey Charlie, No your suggestion wasn't. The original suggestion was. So my post is rather about it. Sorry for confusion.
Atsushi Eno Charlie Poole wrote: > It wasn't a suggestion that the mono project do it, which > I think is a bad idea. I was just trying to indicate the > relative level of difficuty and point the way for a user > to do it in specific, targeted cases. > > Sorry if that wasn't clear. > > Charlie > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Atsushi Eno >> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:30 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Mono-list] Thoughts on Mono on Windows >> >> Even if we do the "right" thing, it will break some Windows >> components due to not supported features and then your OS >> gets unstable. >> For example, it may break Windows Cardspace support (infocard.exe). >> >> Unless you want others suffer from OS unstability, I don't >> think it's worth doing it. >> >> Atsushi Eno >> >> >> Charlie Poole wrote: >>> Hi Stifu, >>> >>>> Like adding an option in the context menu (right click the >> exe / "Run >>>> with Mono"), or even setting Mono as the default .NET >> framework, if >>>> that's even possible. >>> It's trivial to do this badly, a little harder to do right. :-) >>> >>> Badly: Create an entry in the registry for file type .exe, >> such that >>> Run with Mono... runs mono.exe with the executaboe as an >> argument. Why >>> is this bad? Because you'll see it on all exes, both managed and >>> unmanaged. >>> >>> Right: Create a Windows shell extension that examines the exe file >>> first to see if it's managed and only then display the menu item. >>> You'll need to know COM and Windows Shell Extensions to do that. >>> >>> A simple workaround is to just create shortcuts on a case by case >>> purpose. That's what NUnit does in it's install, for example. >>> >>> Charlie >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mono-list maillist - [email protected] >>> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mono-list maillist - [email protected] >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list >> > > > > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
