i filed a bug for the gtk# errors: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=61348 Mike Kestner responded to this, his comments don't mention if it's actually been fixed yet though
and as for the memory leak with regular expressions on windows: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=62293 nobody has even bothered to respond though.
Filing bug reports on Slashdot (without the information needed, mind you) wont get them fixed.
Filing them on Bugzilla will. i used to think the same... i had to get ignored on Bugzilla to even want to post on Slashdot.
Just don't claim Mono is ready for something when it clearly isn't.
I mainly use Linux... Miguel and Ximian make it sound as if Mono is _serious_ so i gave it a shot. When i'm on Windows (thanks to VMWare), i use Visual Studio because the IDE is incredibly good, and because Mono on Windows is barely usable IMO, on Linux however, it's pretty good.
and umm, as i mentioned earlier in my first post: you can't even use what Microsoft provides if you intend to do anything serious with GTK#. Since the topic is also about GTK# taking on Windows.Forms, i figured it would be worth mentioning the problems i experienced with it.
i'm developing a C# application which has a System.Windows.Forms (SWF) frontend for the Windows version, and a GTK# frontend for the Linux version. I was hoping to get rid of the SWF frontend and deploy my application on Windows and Linux using the GTK# frontend. Despite all of the hype surrounding Mono/GTK# (thanks miguel) i have not been able to get this working because GTK# simply doesn't work correctly with MS.NET. There are parts of GTK# that actually rely on an incompatibilty between Mono and MS.NET to work correctly. So when this code is executed with MS.NET, you'll get runtime exceptions. The same code will function correctly on Windows when you use Mono on Windows, but then i get memory leaks everytime i use Regex.Match which my application needs quite often. So after leaking about 395MB of RAM, the garbage collector will crash with an error ("too many heap sections"). The same code runs perfectly on Linux in Mono.
I would really like to see Mono and GTK# completely ready to be used on Windows for _serious_ stuff (as in: not the average Hello World GTK# app) but rigth now, it just isn't up to the task yet. On Linux, it's pretty good alraedy, but on Windows it's just unusable for my application. I've had to go back to using my old SWF frontend for my windows users.
"At present, P2P software has too many times been hijacked by those who use it for illegal purposes to which the vast majority of our consumers do not wish to be exposed"
replace "P2P software" with "Microsoft Windows"... ya think they're gonna go after microsoft next?
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as a matter of fact i did.
Mike Kestner responded to this, his comments don't mention if it's actually been fixed yet though
nobody has even bothered to respond though.
i filed a bug for the gtk# errors: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=61348
and as for the memory leak with regular expressions on windows: http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=62293
Filing bug reports on Slashdot (without the
information needed, mind you) wont get them
fixed.
Filing them on Bugzilla will.
i used to think the same... i had to get ignored on Bugzilla to even want to post on Slashdot.
Just don't claim Mono is ready for something when it clearly isn't.
I mainly use Linux... Miguel and Ximian make it sound as if Mono is _serious_ so i gave it a shot. When i'm on Windows (thanks to VMWare), i use Visual Studio because the IDE is incredibly good, and because Mono on Windows is barely usable IMO, on Linux however, it's pretty good.
and umm, as i mentioned earlier in my first post: you can't even use what Microsoft provides if you intend to do anything serious with GTK#. Since the topic is also about GTK# taking on Windows.Forms, i figured it would be worth mentioning the problems i experienced with it.
i'm developing a C# application which has a System.Windows.Forms (SWF) frontend for the Windows version, and a GTK# frontend for the Linux version. I was hoping to get rid of the SWF frontend and deploy my application on Windows and Linux using the GTK# frontend. Despite all of the hype surrounding Mono/GTK# (thanks miguel) i have not been able to get this working because GTK# simply doesn't work correctly with MS.NET. There are parts of GTK# that actually rely on an incompatibilty between Mono and MS.NET to work correctly. So when this code is executed with MS.NET, you'll get runtime exceptions. The same code will function correctly on Windows when you use Mono on Windows, but then i get memory leaks everytime i use Regex.Match which my application needs quite often. So after leaking about 395MB of RAM, the garbage collector will crash with an error ("too many heap sections"). The same code runs perfectly on Linux in Mono.
I would really like to see Mono and GTK# completely ready to be used on Windows for _serious_ stuff (as in: not the average Hello World GTK# app) but rigth now, it just isn't up to the task yet. On Linux, it's pretty good alraedy, but on Windows it's just unusable for my application. I've had to go back to using my old SWF frontend for my windows users.
"At present, P2P software has too many times been hijacked by those who use it for illegal purposes to which the vast majority of our consumers do not wish to be exposed"
replace "P2P software" with "Microsoft Windows"... ya think they're gonna go after microsoft next?
(hey i can dream can i?)
haha.. you're gonna get spammed so bad.. oh wait..