[Mono-list] Re: [Mono-hackers-list] Re: Patch for mcs

[Atsushi Eno]

Just a cralification; I don't mean that your project is waste of
time. I was just worried that mcs hackers might have to spend their
time unnecessarrily. Sorry if it sounds like nasty intemptation.

Atsushi Eno

> Please provide all what you should put to require mcs hackers
> to review the patches. It is not a good idea to put patches step
> by step, without obvious purpose. If it is being reverted later
> when the purpose turned out that we should not have in mcs
> codebase, it will be just waste of time.
> 
> If you are going to create another tool, then you should keep
> your changes on those mcs sources in your local mcs copy, so that
> other mcs hackers don't have to be bothered about whatever they
> never use.
> 
> Atsushi Eno
> 
> Gaurav Vaish wrote:
> 
>>> Ok, I think I understood what you are going to do.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Ahh! Finally, I make a breakthrough. ;-)
>>
>>
>>> So what you need is, to have public members that are accessible
>>> from your own tool 'mcsdoc', which 1)references to mcs.exe as an
>>> assembly and 2)runs its Main() entrypoint and 3)get results that
>>
>>
>>
>>     Hmm.. I never thought of accessing it as an assembly. But yeah..
>> now I think that may be a good idea. Thanks buddy!
>>
>>
>>> Otherwise, you must need more patches to get it working (to get
>>> documentation output). At least there should be patch for driver.cs
>>> that handles your documentation support.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Yes. I have code change for driver.cs also. Only that I never
>> wanted to push it to driver.cs in "mcs" as it would use MCSDoc. If you
>> look at driver.cs in the cvs, it has some changes.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Cheers,
>> Gaurav
>> http://csdoc.sf.net
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