On 07/22/2010 10:21 AM, Stifu wrote: > Piotr Wysocki-2 wrote: >> >> On 07/22/2010 12:00 AM, Miguel de Icaza wrote: >> > In this case, the fear that we have is that existing applications that >> > were built on the Mono world (not on the .NET one) depend on the broken >> > behavior. >> >> How about adding an option --throw-thread-exceptions to mono runtime? >> It would do for me. >> >> I would really appreciate this, as debugging my multi-threaded >> applications will be easier... > > If such a flag was desirable, wouldn't the opposite be better? > Ie: a flag NOT to throw exceptions (current Mono behavior), to be used for > Mono apps that rely on the broken behavior. That way, we'd be compatible > with .NET by default.
I believe (and Miguel has already noticed that too) the default behaviour cannot be changed just like that. The purpose of the flag would be to enable the correct (=compatible with .NET) behaviour for those who need it ... now (i.e. Daniel Hughes, me ;)). Adding this flag (--throw-thread-exceptions) would also enable developers from mono world to debug and ,,fix'' their applications. I would welcome --throw-thread-exceptions option now (in trunk and mono-2-6 branch) and changing the default behaviour to the correct one in 2.8. In 2.8 the option should then become obsolete. (However if 2.8 is really going to be released in 6-8 weeks, I wonder, if it would be enough time for the mono world developers...) Just my 2c Cheers -- Piotr Wysocki Mobile Systems Research Labs, Poznan University of Technology _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
