Alan answered most of the points, but I have one additional comment: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Justin Dearing<[email protected]> wrote: > If there is no difference, why do many OSS projects offer different > binaries?
It's possible that they build using some #if blocks to alter behavior depending on the platform, but note that this is not necessary -- the execution platform can easily be detected at runtime. A more legitimate reason is that there may be some C glue library required on both platforms, and the different binary archives need to package the platform-specific glue. Again, the managed (CIL) code can easily be identical in this case as well. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
