[Mono-dev] Heads up: Elimination of the 2.0 and 4.0 profiles

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hey,

Mhm, that is a good idea.   Will think about it.

Right now we were just planning on calling the next one Mono 3.12.   But
perhaps the time has come for a nice bump!

Miguel

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Martin Thwaites <monoforum at my2cents.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Miguel,
>
> Would you be looking at calling this Mono 4.0? Not that it makes any
> difference really, it just seems there's been a lot of improvements in
> recently, and an announcement of a new version me give some renewed
> interest.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
> On 22 October 2014 21:10, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Alex,
>>
>> It is very repetitive work, so what I wanted to do was to write a perl
>> script to remove the *obvious* ifdefs.   The tool would remove only those
>> that match the following criteria (more or less):
>>
>>    - Remove toplevel #if NET_2_0 with the final #endif
>>    - Only remove those that contain those preprocessor directives
>>
>> And then have a human do the more fine-tuned approach.      There are a
>> couple more defines that I remember could be automated, but I would love to
>> have this in the form of a script.
>>
>> I am afraid of applying a patch like that blindly, because there are no
>> exact guarantees of what happened without reviewing the whole file.  So a
>> script with the invariants would take a lot of my nervousness out.
>>
>> Also, when I did it once, I had a setup where I rebuilt the assemblies
>> and compared the output.  This would ensure that removal of ifdefs did not
>> change the resulting binaries.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:04 PM, akoeplinger <alex.koeplinger at outlook.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds like a good thing ;-)
>>>
>>> I've got a branch in my fork where I removed the NET_2_0 ifdefs:
>>> https://github.com/akoeplinger/mono/compare/remove-net20-ifdefs,
>>> @kumpera
>>> told me a while ago that removing the 2.0 profile is on the horizon when
>>> I
>>> asked about why the ifdefs are still there.
>>>
>>> I refrained from making a PR so far because it is quite huge, do you
>>> think
>>> now would be a good time?
>>>
>>> -- Alex
>>>
>>>
>>>
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