[Mono-dev] Altering our build system.

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> This would dovetail nicely with the idea of splitting up mcs into
> smaller modules as part of the git migration; see:
> 
>         http://www.mono-project.com/GitMigration
> 
> I would also suggest using xbuild to build the non-core libraries.  This
> will make it easier for people who aren't using Unix to build the
> libraries, as Visual Studio could then (hopefully) be used for building,
> thus avoiding the pain that is Cygwin for everything except the runtime
> and core libraries.

As much as I would love to split the code now, the Git migration process
is too slow and each time we test new setups it burns a lot of time, so
I do not want to conflate those two just yet.

Miguel.