Mono for Windows vs. .NET?

walt · Post by **walt** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:28 am

I just installed a program under wine that says "install Mono for
Windows to run .NET programs".

My question is, why not just install .NET from winetricks instead?
Is this something new?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:25 am

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:58 PM, walt<[email protected]> wrote:

I just installed a program under wine that says "install Mono for
Windows to run .NET programs".

My question is, why not just install .NET from winetricks instead?
Is this something new?

You could. .NET used to not install properly, and mono is a free
implementation, though it may not support all of .NET's features.

--
-Austin

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:50 pm

Austin English wrote:

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:58 PM, walt<[email protected]> wrote:

I just installed a program under wine that says "install Mono for
Windows to run .NET programs".

My question is, why not just install .NET from winetricks instead?
Is this something new?

You could. .NET used to not install properly, and mono is a free
implementation, though it may not support all of .NET's features.

The 'Install Mono for Windows' will appear if .NET is not installed.
However, you need to know which version of .NET you need. .NET 1.1 and
2.0 install well, but do not provide all of the functions needed to
support some programs. .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 are, as far as I know, not
usable yet.

James McKenzie