[Mono-list] Mono: Post 1.0 plans and development update.

[Matt Raffel]

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> On Friday 16 July 2004 18:46, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > > I don't know why I am asking about this, but wasn't there a plan for
> > > smaller ECMA profiles for things like mobile devices?  When I attended
> > > a .NET user group meeting a few months ago this seemed to be a major
> > > point of interest among the existing .NET users there.  Forgive me if
> > > I missed an obvious answer somewhere.
> >
> > There was a plan, but it never quite matured, it really needs someone
> > with the interest to drive that process.
> >
> > One of the problems with the Compact Framework is that it defines what
> > someone thought would be a good subset, and it typically has lots of
> > things that you do not need, and it lacks things that a lot of people
> > would like to have.
> >
> > What we have been considering is a tool that would take as input a set
> > of classes and methods that are required, and the tool would generate a
> > new DLL with everything required.
> >
> > It would pull those types and any dependencies required to satisfy that
> > dependency, and would operate entirely at the assembly level, without
> > any source code level changes.
> >
> > This, I feel is a better way of creating embedded versions of Mono than
> > having ifdefs everywhere.
> >
> > That being said, for people that need even more, it is possible that
> > certain dependencies would have to be manually removed, but in general I
> > think this is a direction that I want to pursue for embedded versions of
> > Mono.
> >
> > Miguel.
> >
> >
> >
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