Truly cross platform?

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Ray Cassick

The thread bellow titled 'Determining if two paths are the same' brings to
mind some of the first 'things' I had heard way back when DotNet started. It
was going to be the panacea of cross platform development.



I am asking the question here of the group to find out if everyone (anyone)
thinks this has come (or is coming) to fruition.



I think that perhaps it has gone a long way towards making it simpler to
communicate between platforms but I am not sure if the framework itself has
actually made it to the cross platform development hall of fame just yet.



What do you folks think is the possibility of truly doing that? Looking at
the mono project and actually trying to use it in some productive manner has
showed me that this is far off. Just trying to get it working along with GDK
and Mono-develop on a fedora Core 6 system was an exercise in futility.
While I can understand what drives the open source community I honestly can't
understand what keeps it going when stuff is that hard. I can install VS.NET
2005 and be developing in an hour. Hello world in Mono-develop never came to
life. But, I digress and that is another rant for another message area.



So, what are your thoughts and ideas?
 
Hello!
You wrote on Tue, 1 May 2007 14:40:22 -0400:

RC> The thread bellow titled 'Determining if two paths are the same' brings
to
RC> mind some of the first 'things' I had heard way back when DotNet
started. It
RC> was going to be the panacea of cross platform development.

It never was. You probably mixed it with Java.

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Eugene Mayevski
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network security
 
Ray said:
What do you folks think is the possibility of truly doing that?
Looking at the mono project and actually trying to use it in some
productive manner has showed me that this is far off. Just trying to
get it working along with GDK and Mono-develop on a fedora Core 6
system was an exercise in futility. While I can understand what
drives the open source community I honestly can't understand what
keeps it going when stuff is that hard. I can install VS.NET 2005 and
be developing in an hour. Hello world in Mono-develop never came to
life. But, I digress and that is another rant for another message
area.
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Hello world? I've got much more complex stuff than that running. But, and
this is a big but, I don't develop in Linux. I develop in VS2005 and every
now and then copy my binaries over to Suse Linux running in a VMWare machine
to see if they work under Mono. The only problems I've seen so far are with
some Windows Form components, and that's getting more and more complete all
the time.

Note also I don't have a real need to write cross platform software, I just
think it's neat that you can.

This is writing enterprise software for work and hobby games programming at
home. The games have been more problematic than the business software.
 
I had heard way back when DotNet started. It was going to be the panacea
You heard wrong. No one ever made that claim for .NET.
 
Nik Coughlin said:
Hello world? I've got much more complex stuff than that running. But, and
this is a big but, I don't develop in Linux. I develop in VS2005 and
every now and then copy my binaries over to Suse Linux running in a VMWare
machine to see if they work under Mono. The only problems I've seen so
far are with some Windows Form components, and that's getting more and
more complete all the time.
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I have tons of advanced stuff running on Windows too :)

You know I never tried to do that. All that time and I have never tried just
writing on windows and running on Linux :)

Are they really better at the Windows forms stuff? Has GDK come along that
far?
Note also I don't have a real need to write cross platform software, I
just think it's neat that you can.
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I think it woul dbe neat too. Opens up all kind sof business oportinities to
me. Bu then I have to actually support it :)
 
Ray said:
I have tons of advanced stuff running on Windows too :)

You know I never tried to do that. All that time and I have never
tried just writing on windows and running on Linux :)
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Yeah it's good, I don't much like any of the IDEs I've tried on Linux. Nice
thing is that you don't even need to recompile to run .NET stuff under Mono.
I just copy my bin folder over to the Linux box and go "Mono MyApp.exe" at
the command line and off it goes.
Are they really better at the Windows forms stuff? Has GDK come along
that far?
Click to expand...

Getting better. Some annoying things not implemented like toolstrip. Don't
think they're using GDK:
 
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