Hi, I wrote a nice reply to this on my phone whilst bored on the bus, but then it failed to send, somehow managing to get a 404 error. :( Thanks google! Stephen Bain wrote: Sys.Web 2.0 in Mono is fully (as far as I can see, having written several .NET based bots) supported. The only Web problem at the moment is that the WebBrowser control hasn't yet been implemented into Sys.Win.Forms on Mono, but that doesn't affect toolserver use at all (that control is used in GUIs). The only problem with Mono on the toolserver is an apparent lack of some DLLs in the GAC. Working versions of these modules are distributed by the Mono project, so I think it would be very worthwile for a sysadmin to put them in place (a workaround at the moment is to drag the DLLs out of your local Mono installation and upload them to the toolserver in the same directory as your executable). Having noted that Mono is good for anything except Web GUIs, I'd say that the current toolserver is suitable for purpose given that most .NET bots other than AWB and the like are console based. The most valid use for a Windows toolserver would simply be for AWB, but my feeling is that program is best run from a local system (partially because it does like RAM (but getting better!)). Where the speed of the toolserver's connection is desirable, pywikipedia is just as good, if not better, than AWB for rapid editing. Overall, I don't think there's a great enough neccessity to make the outlay for a new system with Windows. Thanks, Martin

Absolutely. I'm *not* implying that we want to host Huggle there or AWB there or whatever... very non starter technically (and very unnecessary, they run fine as clients). I am merely saying there is a body of expertise out there familiar with using .net to do wiki related things, that's all. Talking to those authors (and people who have written plugins for them and the like, or who have written .net extensions that make things easier, ala how mediawiki.pm makes life easier for perl toolsmiths) about interest in a windows toolserver might be a good thing to do... Larry Pieniazek Hobby mail: Lar at Miltontrainworks dot com

Mohamed Magdy schrieb: For the latter problem there exist a lot of hacks, for example XP-AntiSpy can remove the 10 connections limit. Marco