Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (757 mails)

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@xxxxxxx>]

Andreas Hanke wrote:
> Volker Kuhlmann schrieb:
>> This thread is about what's annoying about the package management. .exe
>> processes are.
> 
> .exe processes are neither specific to the package management nor can
> they be influenced by the people who are designing the package
> management architecture for SUSE Linux.

So you say that the SUSE package management designers were forced
to use mono .exe files regardless of whether it makes sense?
Interesting conspiracy theory.

> Try a Mono or, maybe even better, an ECMA mailing list.

Sorry, I googled for "ecma mailing list exe" and found nothing
relevant. However, some sites seem to suggest .exe is not the
only recommended suffix for .NET code.

>> The .exe extension is specific to the mswindows platform
>> (can one say of legendary notoriety?).
> 
> No it isn't.

Examples please? (Except mono, which seems to be a reimplementation
of windows-only .NET code. And no, being able to use wine for some
.exe files doesn't make them cross-platform either.)


Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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