| Ah, but the real question is when we shall see a proper Mac OS X installer for MonoDevelop, even in its current state. I have looked at some of the material, but the list of dependencies is incredibly complex and ever-changing, and I am not even certain if all of the information is even up to date.
This, along with the inability to use WinForms on Mac OS X, is a major hindrance to the adoption of Mono by Mac developers, at least in my opinion.
-ken On 2-Oct-06, at 3:53 PM, Lee Turner wrote: Installing Ubuntu and then apt-get installing mono or using synaptics to do it for you has yeilded a very usuable development environment for me, mono-develop is still far from perfect but it works.
Debian/Ubuntu does have the advantage of dealing with dependancies for you (on the whole), the reason for Ubuntu is because it's generally more 'bleeding-edge' than Debian installs and will ship with a newer version of mono(develop)
anyway, that's my two cents
On 02/10/06, David Cornelson (gmail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Well, Mono 1.1.next is always imminent.
> What we do need though, is good testing of Windows.Forms to make sure
> that no major bugs slip through.
So once that final bug is resolved and there is a consensus that WinForms
works as designed, what are the plans, if any, to simplify the packaging and
deployment processes.
It's been awhile since I've tried to run Mono on Linux and I don't think
I've ever seen MonoDevelop functioning properly. I don't think I've ever
been able to cleanly install Mono in a Linux environment without needing to
know how to resolve dependencies (which can spiral out of control quickly).
I think the question I'm asking is this. Will Mono ever be packaged so that
a non-Linux developer, say a VB 6 developer or less-experienced C#
developer, might be able to throw RedHat, Fedora, Suse, or Debian up on a
computer and quickly start creating usable and cross-platform programs that
can be easily deployed?
This would be my goal. Get those VB programmers interested. Get the guy that
writes software for mom and pop businesses interested.
David Cornelson
_______________________________________________
Mono-winforms-list maillist - [email protected]
http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list
--
<generic witty comment>_______________________________________________ |
_______________________________________________
Mono-winforms-list maillist - [email protected]
http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list
