Well, and since our software will never reach some stable release state, there will probably never be a fixed directory structure.

So it’s great that it is fixed now.

MONO_PATH

Provides a search path to the runtime where to look for library files. This is a tool convenient for debugging applications, but should not be used by deployed applications as it breaks the assembly loader in subtle ways.

So you were using an unsupported feature, a debugging tool, and furthermore, the documentation explicitly states that it should have a list of directories. An empty directory is not a list of directories.

Miguel.

I’ve filed some bug reports in the last year (79696, 77747 for Mono, then one or two for gtk-sharp). But hey, I’ve a job and do not have the time to constantly doing such costly things. I actually can’t always dig for the sources of an error. Maybe you’ve the time to care about all that, I don’t.

Finally, these bug reports are in the public. They’ve been filed to bugzilla — by other users.

Again: I like Mono, really. But I don’t think it’s stable. That’s all. That’s no bad thing. If you do think it is, it’s ok. I’ll continue using it and write hooks around things that do not work as expected.

I’m not against criticisms. I’m against nitpicking and pointless blogging.

If you’ve found so many bugs, where are your bug reports? Why
don’t you make them public where they belong to: in Mono’s Bugzilla.

Of course there are many classes not implemented: The whole
2.0 profile has missing pieces. WinForms 1.1 has just been finished and
it has for sure some issues. So *parts* of Mono are really pre-beta,
but this isn’t true for mcs, the runtime and the 1.1 profile.

Nevertheless, from my point of view this is bad style (yes, I’m talking about the Mono thing) and I’m not the only one who thinks so. My last bug report is another example of bad style. Parsing a user-provided string the wrong way is the most obvious vulnerability in almost every program. Mono is a really cool piece of software, they (Miguel et. al.) did a good job but it is, in my opinion, rather pre-beta software. There are and were so many missing things, buggy programs, or unfinished implementations.
Even if it is open source (and I know, *nobody* is allowd to criticize open source software), I take the liberty of having my own opinion. It’s not my problem if you feel attacked by me or my statement.

A compiler is a compiler. It is responsible for translating things into other things, maybe with some non-linear transformations in-between. If some editor or whatever is not capable of parsing the output a compiler produces, than take some script, wrap it around the compiler, and let it transform the output. That’s far less weird.

So long, I’m hungry now.