[Mono-list] MONO and tooling...

[Fergus Henderson]

On 08-Nov-2002, Miguel de Icaza <miguel@ximian.com> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > That would not be a good course of action, IMHO, since it means that
> > either (1) you are forking the Eclipse sources, or (2) you are depending
> > on a proprietry tool to build your source each time, both of which are
> > seriously undesirable.
> 
> This serves a number of purposes for me though:
> 
> 	* A big regression test suite for MCS.
> 	* A big regression test suite for Mono.
> 	* A chance to fine tune mono to run it at a decent speed.

OK, those are good reasons.

However IMHO it would be bad if you start treating it as more than a
good test case.

> 	* The change to run Eclipse on a full open source platform

If you're using a proprietry non-open-source tool to compile it,
then it's not a full open source platform, is it?
The tool chain is part of the platform, IMHO.

So I don't see what the advantage of this would be.

> 	* Convince Microsoft to open source JUMP ;-)

Good luck -- I think you'll need it! ;-)

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