Comment 3 for bug 390591

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Dave Martin (dave-martin-arm) wrote : RE: [Bug 390591] Re: f-spot seems wrongly packaged / unusable for armel

> David: Its not clear if you've not used mono or C# before,

I haven't.

> but mono uses the PE format for its executables, but instead
> of using i386 or other assembly code, its CIL byte code.
> Wikipedia has a fairly good writeup of how .NET (and thus
> mono) applications work
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework. I realize its
> confusing to see .exec and .dlls on a Linux system, but rest
> assured that this is proper and expected behavior.

Thanks for the clarification --- this explains a lot. I'll take a look!

I will try to post some more detailed symptom information when I have
it.

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