[Mono-list] Phalanger on Mono

[Ligesh]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:41:52PM +0900, Atsushi Eno wrote:
> Hello,
> >
> > PHalanger is not just another '[insert your app name]' application.
> 
> No matter how Phalanger is important for you, it is just one of
> applications from the point of a managed runtime's view.

 You are just stating the obvious. That is why I had specifically asked about the official position of mono team with regard to phalanger. As far as the runtime is concerned, Phalanger is not an 'application', but rather a series of instructions to be executed. :-) 

> 
> AFAIK We don't support IronPython OFFICIALLY. Some of us made changes
> for it just because they probably wanted. When they lost their interest,
> it would be left away. If you want Phalanger on Mono and there are
> missing bits, we'd welcome your patches to fix the issues (it happens
> with related to many applications such as Nemerle and Boo).
> 
> Or if you are asking about commercial support (it could be said as
> "official"), there is Mono Developer Support from Novell:
> http://www.mono-project.com/Kickstart

 OK, so I will rephrase my question to: whether someone in this list 'probably wants' phalanger and is interested in making changes like the way it was done for IronPython. 

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