Testing Mono's compatibility

[Mike]

FoulDragon at aol.com wrote:
> So I'm told we need some form of .NET combatability for our FC4 server.
>
> I fire up Yum and install the mono-complete package, but the resultant 
> install seems to be incredibly easy to break.
>
> If I just put
>
> <% dim variablename; %>
>
> it has a fit.
>
> Error message: /tmp/apache-temp-aspnet-0/bbce3785/87108.0.cs(61,13) : error 
> CS0246: The type or namespace name `dim' could not be found. Are you missing a 
> using directive or an assembly reference?
>   
Last time I checked the mbas (vb.net) compiler was being rewritten and 
it wasn't well implemented into XSP. So for ASP.NET on mono you really 
only get away with c# ATM. Of course unless something has changed, I 
haven't looked into it for a couple of months now. But I've never had 
vb.net stuff work with mono's xsp in an acceptable manner. They are 
still working on that.
> Forget about anything more complex for now.
>
> Is Mono more difficult to install than a conventional ball of RPMs?  Does it 
> need some post-install cleanup?  Or is it just the .NET version of WINE, 
> setting up elaborate dreams then leaving you wanting when it actually comes to 
> compatibility?  Or am I misinterpeting the "ASP.NET for complete fools who can't 
> understand why PHP isn't good enough" sites?
>
>   

Yes and no, I wouldn't classify it in the same field as most packages, 
but it's not really overly difficult either. You shouldn't need to 
really post-install anything unless your trying to setup ASP.NET stuff 
via apache/mod_mono/xsp.

-Mike