[Mono-list] Re: JavaScript and Mono

Dick Porter dick@ximian.com
08 Jan 2003 10:38:20 +0000


On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 19:14, Jeroen Janssen wrote:
> Steve Newman wrote:
> 
> >It turns out I got the story wrong.  Rhys Weatherley has been working on an unrelated JScript implementation (very recently announced) that will be part of Portable.Net.  (He didn't know about JANET, and I didn't know about his project.)  As part of a broader effort to ensure general compatability, Gopal is has been testing to see whether JANET runs under Portable.Net.  But JANET will not be part of Portable.Net and it has not been checked into the Portable.Net source tree.
> >  
> >
> Is it interesting to see if we can work together with Rhys on a JScript 
> implementation that can/will be used by both projects?

Having multiple implementations of the spec is a good thing.  This
doesn't mean they can't cooperate, or even share chunks of code, though.

- Dick