[Mono-dev] What would you like to see in Mono?

[Zoltan Varga]

                                Hi,

 Please-Please file bug reports for the issues that can be considered bugs, like
the "more robust reporting of the stack traces of all threads with SIGQUIT."
issue, which I never heard about before. I can't promise that we will fix all
of our bugs in a short time, but I can promise that we can't fix bugs which we
don't know anything about :).

                   Zoltan

On 3/29/06, Joe Shaw <joeshaw at novell.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This stretched out a bit more than I originally intended. :)
>
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 20:47 -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> >      What would be the top feature you would like to see in Mono?
>
> Although not really in Mono itself, one thing I would like to see is
> better integration with automake.  The main Beagle Makefile.am is
> currently 1181 lines.  There is definitely room for us to clean this up
> substantially a bit on our own, but I've love to see things like
> compilation handled automatically, installation of .mdb files, maybe
> even automatic gacutil for assemblies, etc.
>
> Beyond that, additional profiling tools would help a lot.  Specifically:
>
>         * A profiler that tracked threads.
>
>         * A profiler that tracked when files were opened and closed.
>
>         * A profiler which detected potential deadlocks.
>
> I'd recommend really investigating all the profilers and debugging tools
> available for Java and then work on implementing them in Mono.  As I've
> said to you personally many times before, the biggest difficulty in
> developing applications in Mono at this point is a lack of high-quality
> tools.
>
> In addition, various bug fixes related to profiling: heap-buddy locks up
> instantaneously on SMP machines (not sure if Jon ever filed that or had
> just had discussions about it with Ben and others) and more robust
> reporting of the stack traces of all threads with SIGQUIT.
>
> It might also be helpful if the various profilers could be integrated
> into MonoDevelop or something to give profiling info while the program
> is running.  This data is most useful when it can be visualized.
>
> Coverage tools, both at compile and runtime, integrated into Mono would
> be handy.  I am sure .NET ones exist out there, but they're neither
> immediately obvious nor immediately useful inside a Unix Mono
> development environment.
>
> And one thing that has always bugged me: my apps all behave strangely
> and then crash when I recompile underneath a running instance.  That's
> very annoying, and I suspect it's also a problem if you upgrade packages
> and an app is running as well.
>
> Joe
>
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