Runtime detection of Mono

[linnet]

Currently, the Mono 4 build of Ninject is required to run Ninject on recent versions of Mono. This complicates the use indicated by the questions in newsgroups, Stack Overflow. In addition, using NuGet for a solution running on Mono is out of the question.

This pull request attempts to eliminate the need for the Mono 4 build by replacing compile time directives with runtime detection.

Mono 2 and 3.5 are not affected.

[remogloor]

can't apply atm
silverlight does not compile anymore

[linnet]

@remogloor I can see from the 4.0.0 branch that support for the older versions of Mono (< 4.0) has been removed.

What is your attitude towards this pull request? If it is deemed feasible I will gladly redo the changes to target the 4.0.0 branch instead.

[remogloor]

Ninject 4.0 will drop support for .NET < 4.0 (and therefore Mono < 4.0)
support so that we can use concurrent collections. For .NET 3.5 application
we will keep bugfixing Ninject 3.x but not add any new features.

2014-05-06 10:35 GMT+02:00 Jesper Kamstrup Linnet [email protected]
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@remogloor https://github.com/remogloor I can see from the 4.0.0 branch
that support for the older versions of Mono (< 4.0) has been removed.

What is your attitude towards this pull request? If it is deemed feasible
I will gladly redo the changes to target the 4.0.0 branch instead.

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[linnet]

Ok. But will runtime detection of Mono (as implemented in this pull request) be interesting to you in order to avoid a separate Mono build? It would make a lot of sense for our project running under .NET on Windows and Mono on Linux.

[ygormutti]

I would like to see this pull request merged. I'm working on a project which developers use Linux and Windows and we use NuGet for every external dependency, except for Ninject, because of this issue.

As you can see, the Coinium project isn't using Ninject anymore. If the build for Mono doesn't work well on Windows I'll have to stop using Ninject too.