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

[Konaju Games (Dev)]

Wouldn't it be Mono !4.0 since it won't have the 4.0 reference assemblies
any more?

Yeah, that was bad.  I'm going back to sleep.

On 23 October 2014 07:18, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com> wrote:

> 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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