[Mono-devel-list] Building gmcs with C# Express Beta

[Kamil Skalski]

Dnia czwartek, 27 stycznia 2005 22:06, Martin Baulig napisał:
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> What you describe is exactly the reason for this.  I also don't think
> it'd make any sense to spend any effort in this direction until the APIs
> in .NET 2.0 are stable, documented and won't change anymore.
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Right. Probably it is not primary concern for mono team, but there is still 
possiblilty that MS won't fix all those issues till VS 2005 release. So it is 
always a good idea to communicate to them what we expect to work.

I'm not suggesting that mono team (especially Martin) should devote any time 
for this. The bug I mentioned is so far an effective blocker for using S.R.E 
to compile generics, so currently there is no much need for futher 
investigations. After this gets fixed, I will try to proceed with my 
experiments.

What I suggest is maybe spending some time for discussing missing APIs in 
generics (another one I opened: 
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackid=e61d8182-3585-4b27-bb7e-7b5d47d03c1e)
and report them to MS, which is the "owner" of those APIs.
For example why is that 'Mono_GetGenericFieldDefinition' needed by gmcs?

Kamil Skalski