> From: [email protected] [mailto:mono-list- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of David Curylo > > It's not like Java where you can blindly expect your code to run across > platforms. More like Python or Erlang or numerous other languages and > runtimes where most of the code will work across platforms, but some > libraries are platform-specific.
Even in java, python, or any other language, you can't just build and test on one platform and blindly expect (without testing) that it will work on another platform - because there exist platform specific variations. For example: If you wrote an https server application, and it ran on windows as a service, it *won't* simply run on linux. Because binding low numbered ports requires root escalation. So you need to be careful to launch your application as root and then make a POSIX call to drop privilege after the port is bound. And if you use a path like "C:\foo\bar" your app will break on a non-windows platform. And even if you do the smart thing using special folder enumeration... "Personal" evaluates to "My Documents" on windows, but evaluates to your home directory on linux/unix. So you have to use *different* special folder enumerations on different platforms, in order to have the same effect. Not to mention differences of supported filesystem characters... Path separator char '/' vs '\' ... Case sensitive filesystems, vs case insensitive... Unicode vs Ascii ... Disallowed characters in windows... Maximum path length in windows that doesn't exist in linux/unix... What else? There are simply TONS of differences that are different on different platforms, regardless of the language you use. It is not realistic, in *any* language, to write and test on one platform and expect it to be functional on another platform without testing. Unless your app is a trivial calculator or similar. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
