[Mono-dev] Standard name for mcs

Jonathan Pobst monkey at jpobst.com
Sun Jun 27 21:52:17 EDT 2010


On 6/27/2010 8:20 PM, jmalcolm wrote:
>
> I think this is a fair question.  I am not sure the original poster deserved
> so much grief.
>
> I have certainly compiled C programs from source that were written more than
> five or six years ago.  It does not seem implausible that I might try to
> compile the original posters code a decade from now and that I might find
> that 'gmcs' is indeed not available at that time.

Likely, when gmcs goes away, an alias script called 'gmcs' will be left 
in it's place that points to the current compiler.

Jonathan


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