[Mono-list] .NET API documentation

William Ivanski william.ivanski at gmail.com
Thu May 29 00:14:13 UTC 2014


Great news!

Em qua 28 maio 2014, às 22:42:45, Edward Ned Harvey escreveu:
> This deserves to be cross-posted.  I had heard many people express concern about mono and the .NET API, in the wake of oracle v google, and especially in the recent-ish reversal of decision, which now rules an API to be copyrightable.  
> 
> Congratulations to Mono, and the people named by Miguel below, and thank you Microsoft.   :-)  And congratulations to Oracle, for continuing to destroy java like a bunch of idiots.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-devel-list-
> > bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Miguel de Icaza
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 12:41 PM
> > To: mono-devel
> > Subject: [Mono-dev] .NET API documentation
> > 
> > Hello guys,
> > 
> > Today we launched Xamarin 3, and as part of this release, we are announcing
> > a big contribution from Microsoft.
> > 
> > Microsoft has released the .NET API documentation under a Creative
> > Commons license.
> > 
> > This means a few things:
> > • Mono now has complete docs for use on Mac and Linux
> > • MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio will now provide full docs during code-
> > completion while editing the source code.
> > Many thanks should go to Bryan Costanich that nursed this process and
> > to  our friends at Microsoft that made this possible.   Including Scott Guthrie,
> > S Somasegar, Richard Lander and everyone that did the work to get us the
> > bits.
> > 
> > The documentation is checked into mono/mcs/class, on their respective
> > assemblies.
> > 
> > While we have imported most of the documentation now, our importing
> > tools still fail in a handful of cases, so you will see the documentation get
> > more and more in shape in the next couple of weeks.   We will also start to
> > integrate the various off-line samples that are part of the documentation.
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > Miguel
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