[Mono-dev] Standard name for mcs

Russell Wallace russell.wallace at gmail.com
Mon Jun 28 06:19:42 EDT 2010


On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Robert Jordan <robertj at gmx.net> wrote:
> There are efforts to make "mcs" a multi-target compiler (probably
> under a new name and with script wrappers for "mcs", "gmcs",
> "smcs", "dmcs"), but even then you'll have to specify the target
> runtime version via a command like switch (or resort to the
> aforementioned wrappers).

That sounds great, provided you can specify "version X _or later_", so
that e.g. a program that needs only the features of .Net 4.0 can
continue to operate in an environment where only .Net 5.0 is
available.


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