On 3/13/06, Robert Schiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:11:53PM -0500, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote: > > And PE is used on 32 and 64 bit Windows. So what you're saying is, > we're > > And on any implementation of the CLI specification like Mono. > > > running a 32 or 64 bit Windows binary executable. Is that what is being > said > > now? > > We are running CIL byte code within Mono. > > > My point remains (from the other trail of this thread) that a windows > binary > > (which a PE would be, btw) has no place on Linux, for more reasons than > > PE is just an extension of the COFF file format. The COFF file format and > many other of it's extension are used on various UNIX flavours and other > operating systems. > > Although I consider ELF to be superior to PE I can't see why PE "has no > place > on Linux". Linux used a.out prior to ELF which is a plain stupid format > compared to PE. > > > .class is interpreted by the java vm, and ycp is handled by yast - so > they > > aren't exactly the same type of situation. Unless you're saying its > > interpreted. > > Sure it is --- or compiled by a just-in-time compiler, depending on the > implementation of the runtime system. Thus it is exactly the same > situation > with the only difference that CIL is a more advanced language than Java > bytecode or the ycp script language. > > > So is Zen a compiled binary, or is it still interpreted by Mono? If its > a > > compiled binary, then I still don't get wtf Mono is needed for. If its > being > > interpreted, wtf is interpreted code doing in a core application? > > Huh? Even before this change YaST was already using YCP. Now there is a > more > advanced language used as well. > > > Please excuse my laziness in not looking more closely at the files > myself, I > > have a very hectic week, and my weekend (while spent out of the office) > was > > all but useless as far as rest and hobbies go. > > It's ok if you have no time to inform yourself about the basics but then > it > might be useful to take this into account when giving comments on a topic.
***********************snip**************************************** gee, if it wasn't for this back and forth messaging and i ran across these files with .exe extensions(running 10.0 and there are quite a few) i might easily have thought that they were trojans or somelike, and erased them. but because of these conversations, i will keep them(i think?) :-) Peace.....................ed (end- user) Edward Dunagin-Dunigan 4646 Glenwood Drive Bozeman, MT 59718 mobile 406-570-0992
