[Mono-list] Questions on the Mono roadmap

[Dallman, John]

> Ugh. Managed C++ should be avoided if you want to port the code:
> try to restrict its use as much as possible, so when you port you
> can rewrite the small bit of work.

We have no choice but to write a whole load of wrapper functions
in it, but they're being generated rather than hand-written, so=20
changing our generation tool is quite possible.=20

> There is a tool that can be used to create C libraries
> from assemblies automatically. It can probably be tweaked
> to suit your needs (like create C++ classes instead of
> C functions).

C functions would do fine.=20

> It's not yet clear how to keep it working when we'll have
> a moving GC, though (in mono 2.0).

Oops...

--=20
John Dallman