Dan Kegel wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org wrote:
Wine-mono on the other hand is probably premature. How many apps are helped at the moment by winetricks mono12 ? I don't think it's a large number.
Honestly I don't know. Is this due to inadequacies in the current mono, or inadequacies in Wine?
Mono doesn't even try to handle mixed-mode assemblies (i.e. ones that contain some native code). And by gum, every .net app built by Microsoft tools seems to include some native code for some odd reason. Go figure!
Is this true even for the Windows version of Mono? If Mono is supposed to be a replacement for what the .net framework provides, then it seems like duplicating this functionality on Windows (and therefore Wine) would be part of it.
I did some searching as for why this is the case. This link: http://www.jprl.com/Blog/archive/development/mono/2008/Jan-27.html indicates that the main issue is the loader supporting PE files, which is what Wine already does.
Either way, Mono 2.0 will finally come out around the same time as Wine 1.0 (quarter 2 of 2008), and I suspect the number of applications Mono helps will greatly improve by then.
Maybe, but only apps that have been properly cleaned of native code.
- Dan
Hmm...it seems like gluing Mono and Wine together would require a bit more collaboration than the two projects have.
Thanks, Scott Ritchie