[Mono-devel-list] MSBuild implementation and Google Summer of code

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> I'm going to send application to google for this. I have some questions.
> 1. On what license code from
> svn.myrealbox.com/monodevelop/trunk/MSBuild/ is released?

We should look into it, but I suspect it might have been X11, since
pieces of it end up in the class libraries.  But we need to check with
the original authors.

> 2. Am i right with that: MSBuild implementation should consist of 3
> parts: xml parser(using XmlSerializer), classes from 4 above mentioned
> namespaces and a command line tool?

That sounds right.

> 3. Which documentation should I use? There are(in MSDN): .NET Framework
> reference about Longhorn and some notes about msbuild app.

The latest beta contains many docs;  What is of most importance is the
functional specification (as detailed on the Wiki page), some of those
will map to some classes in the documentation, some will not.

> 4. What about methods typical to Win32 API? Like
> Microsoft.Build.Utilities.ToolLocationHelper.GetDotNetFrameworkRootRegistryKey().

You can return fake values, throw NotImplementedException, that sort of
thing.

> 5. Is anyone able to contact with Rob Tillie
> <rob.tillie at student.tul.edu>? He started the implementation that is
> available in svn/md.