[Mono-dev] Using Mono.Options in MS.NET

[Avery Pennarun]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com> wrote:
>> Now that Mono.Options is included in Mono 2.2, will it still be
>> available separately?  If not, it will be hard to build
>> Windows-compatible programs that use it, unless people go digging
>> throug the mono sources and extracting the libraries they like.  I
>> think it might be helpful to separate "mono libraries that add
>> functionality to any .Net application" and "mono libraries that
>> implement the MS class library" into two different projects.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>
> You can always pull the code using the AnonSVN user interface from the
> web, it can produce tarballs of just the things that you need.
>
> Our todo list includes "Make it easier to release components
> independently", would love to do it, we just need the spare cycles to
> make it happen in a general way for everything that we need.
>
> I think the tarball solution is pretty good, and we could just bundle
> solutions or files for the more complicated modules (Mono.Options is
> really easy to use).

Thanks, that answers my question.

Avery