Re: Mono issue.

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 08:55:55PM -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>    There is an issue with Mono embeddability as a plug-in, apparently
> (and we have not yet confirmed this, but there is some evidence towards
> this), the GC system can not be dynamically loaded into an application. 
> So this might be an issue to consider.
>
>    If we make the plugin conditional, we could just as well make the
> gnumeric build conditional on this.  Thoughts?

hmm, it took almost 2 years to fix this with the guile plugin.  That
makes me reticent to travel that path again.  On the other hand this
would really be just for the hack value.  We'd disable it by
default.  Once we're doing that there is little value in sticking
part in core and part in a plugin.

If mono needs to access main then we can do a custom mono version of
main as long as we keep everything conditional.  Have a look at
src/main-application.c for a template.  We'd need to clone that
because automake tends to get itchy about conditional depends at
times.

Sound viable ?