[Mono-dev] Getting rid of SRE CompilerContext

[Jeroen Frijters]

Hi Rodrigo,

No, IKVM doesn't use CompilerContext (although I did implement (some of) it in IKVM.Reflection, to support my mcs prototyping).

Thanks,
Jeroen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodrigo Kumpera [mailto:kumpera at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:44 AM
> To: marek.safar; Rolf Bjarne Kvinge; Jeroen Frijters
> Cc: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Getting rid of SRE CompilerContext
> 
> Hey folks,
> 
> Now that Marek has landed support for CompilerContext free mcs[1], I do
> want to start killing all CompilerContext kludges we have.
> 
> Rolf mentioned that vbnc does depends to some extend but vbnc+cecil
> doesn't. It would be nice if we could get either the cecil version
> done or the former fixed.
> 
> Jeroen, does IKVM depends on SRE with CompilerContext?
> 
> If others depends on CompilerContext or mono specific behavior of SRE,
> please talk now as 2.8 won't be forgiving on this matter.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rodrigo
> 
> [1]Actually not all compiler context hacks can go away, but only those
> strictly required to compile corlib will remain.
>