Yea I found how to edit the .mdp file while searching around the other
day, and it did work. I also found how to generate a tarball in
monodevelop, but for some reason, it only worked as root, which isn't a
big deal. I think deployment project templates (in MD) and overall
application development should be addressed further. The world is
getting comfy using RPM/deb/* type binary packages, and I think it
would be a step back to limit apps written in C#/Mono to tarball
deployment; especially in the 'Next->Next->Finish' world of Windows. I
also think that while xcopy simplifies a lot of things, it's not a great
solution to deployment, especially in Windows systems.
Personally, I would like to quickly generate installation packages that
provide menu entries in the users respective desktop environments
applications menu, as well as proper file location/layout. I certainly
would never expect end users of my software to compile my applications
from source code; I think it's unprofessional and a bit lame, unless my
app is targeted towards developers (like mono*), which in this case it
isn't specifically in this instance. IMH, Rapid Application
Development isn't only about a great runtime and a great lanaguage to
accompany it; it's also about getting your software to your customers
_rapidly_.
I also kind of feel like there's way to big of a disconnect between mono
and monodevelop (the mono runtime is almost feature complete, at version
11, MD is .89 hundreths away from a 1.0 release ^_^ ); there wouldn't
be as many .NET apps in the world today without the awe inspiring
muscle of Visual Studio.NET, but that's probably for another
discussion.
Message
Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Application Deployment
From: Mirco Bauer <meebey (AT) meebey (DOT) net>
Date: Sun, August 13, 2006 6:19 pm
To: "Carlos J. Muentes" <carlos (AT) rockwithme (DOT) org>
Cc: mono-devel-list (AT) lists (DOT) ximian.com
Fri, 2006-08-11 at 11:45 -0700, Carlos J. Muentes wrote:
Thanks for the great input Kornel, but I built this app using
Monodevelop, and am not sure how to pass /target to MD during
compilation. Should I recompile the app in Windows?
the monodevelop project file (something.mdp) with an texteditor and
change the target from Exe to WinExe and open it with monodevelop again
and compile. Now it will have no console window on windows.
I asked already about this feature (allowing to set target to WinExe via
monodevelop it self) on the #monodevelop channel but nobody was
interested in it.
Problem is, as soon as you change the build settings in monodevelop, it
will replace WinExe with -1 ;) so don't forgot to change/check that
value once in a while.