[mono-vb] VB.NET Roadmap

[Rob.Tillie@Student.tUL.EDU]

Hey Rafael,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: A Rafael D Teixeira [mailto:rafaelteixeirabr@hotmail.com]
> >From: Rob.Tillie@Student.tUL.EDU
> >
> >Hey All,
> >
> >Since Mono 1.0 I haven't seen any activity in the MS.VB namespace. =
What's
> >the plan of attack?
>=20
> First I'm trying to kill as much bugs as detected by our nunit tests
> (shame
> on me I still didn't run the mainsoft test suite to gauge how many =
other
> things may be broken).
>=20
> Rob could you run the mainsoft suite and post the detailed results, =
so
> that

Sure.

> we can plan on dividing the work load. The only part I wouldn't touch =
just
> now is the late-binding support, because most of it's overload =
selection
> code have to be duplicated inside mbas.
>=20
> I'm happy to announce that we will have the help of another =
brazilian:
> Jo=E3o
> Paulo Viegas. Soon he will be helping me organize the attack.
>=20
> >Have people been reassigned / busy with other things or something =
like
> >that?
>=20
> Seems like Jambunathan is getting inside the compiler because he
> reassigned
> to himself a bugzilla case that deals with the preprocessing =
directives
> (#Const) so he is probably delving into the tokenizer =
(mb-tokenizer.cs)
> just
> now. Anirban is squashing long-standing bugs and omissions in the =
compiler
> also.
>=20
> >Is anybody still working on it without committing?
>=20
> Maybe. But I think that if you map what is wrong and missing, them we =
can
> reach each other to give everyone a piece of the action.
>=20
> >Can I hack the namespace without doing things already being done at
> Novell?
>=20
> If you want to implement (or migrate Mainsoft code) to mostly
> unimplemented
> modules just choose one and announce your intention here in the list, =
if
> no
> one yell at you in 24 hours proceed (don't forget that Anirban and
> Jambunathan work in India, roughly half-a-day away in the clock) .

Yeah I know, I talked to Jambunathan off-list also. I'm in the =
Netherlands,
so I'm also in a different time zone.

Stay tuned,

-- Rob.