[Mono-devel-list] porting SharpDevelop

[Pascal Deliot]

Hi,

Im a little disapointed by your anwer!

I thought that the main interest of the CLI is the inter-platform compatibility.
Then in the theory if you have an'ECMA-compatible runtime engine (and the MCS base calsses) you should run the same "binary" on all platform.

If you must write a version by OS and compile one CLI for each one, why don't use C++ language and GCC?


I've made some tests with simples GUI programs running pretty well with mono. And i hope the future will allow us to maintain only one source code and one CLI for all platform.




-----Message d'origine-----
De : mono-devel-list-admin at lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-devel-list-admin at lists.ximian.com] De la part de Steve Deobald
Envoyé : lundi 5 juillet 2004 03:35
À : Carter Smithhart
Cc : mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
Objet : Re: [Mono-devel-list] porting SharpDevelop

On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 18:21, Carter Smithhart wrote:
> > You have heard about monodevelop (website: 
> > http://www.monodevelop.com) right?
> > 
> > --Todd
> 
> Yeah.. I played around with it for a bit.. It doesn't have a GUI 
> builder embedded within yet, so I thought I'd look around for another way.
> Another reason I looked elsewhere is because I was looking for a GUI 
> builder that generates code using the System.Windows.Forms namespace. 
> I guess I also wanted some experience with what "porting" a C# app 
> would be like.

Ha ha! Interesting way to go about it, I guess. :)

You might want to have a look at mono's System.Windows.Forms (SWF) implementation before you try to make this journey. It's actually broken at the moment, and the process of re-writing it has just recently begun.

The other thing you may want to look at is GTK#. It would probably require less effort to port any SWF app to GTK# (as the MonoDevelop team has done with SharpDevelop) than trying to piece together broken pieces of SWF. I would recommend finding a much smaller SWF app, and porting that to GTK# to familiarize yourself with the API. Then, if you're looking for features in MonoDevelop which haven't been added yet, perhaps you could give the team a hand? :) The amount they've accomplished in MonoDevelop's short lifespan is almost unfathomable:
teams at various companies are already using MonoDevelop for enterprise application development, which speaks volumes about the work done so far. I think it's a project worth contributing to.

--
Steve Deobald
Software Architect
www.citygroup.ca
www.cityhost.ca

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