Thanks, this is all great information. Mark
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Chris Howie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- - Alder Massimo Vitelion Essex, Status 2 Invictus, Status 2 Daeva OOC: http://wiki.white-wolf.com/camwiki/index.php?title=Massimo_della_Aniela Mark Collins, US2008113152 Austin, TX
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