[Mono-dev] mcs/gmcs

[Raja R Harinath]

"Gert Driesen" <gert.driesen at telenet.be> writes:
[snip]
> Apart from generic SRE & reflection API's, that is.
>
> Would conditional compilation directives be a solution, or would it make the
> code unmanageable ?
>
> Miguel, why wasn't this done for gmcs (instead of having to sync mcs
> changes) ?

We are now trying to reduce the number of gratuitous differences between
mcs and gmcs (whitespace used to be a major cause of merge conflicts
when syncing mcs changes to gmcs).  It may eventually allow us to use a
common codebase with conditionals.  The following link alludes to some
of the further work necessary

  http://blog.hurrynot.org/2006/02/16/more-thoughts-about-mcs-and-gmcs/

Maybe, then we coud have generics-only code inside #if NET_2_0 guards.

- Hari