[mono-vb] Future of Mono's VB.NET

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi,

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 13:32 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > Neither am I a C# or VB.NET programmer (in the remotest sense) nor am
> > I am compiler guru. I am making these observations as a practitioner
> > and as someone who spared some sincere love over mbas/bmcs.

> I do have another concern though;   Today folks are reporting that VB
> does not work (and in a sense that is correct, we do not even have full
> runtime support).
> 
> I think I might want to move mbas, mbas2, bmcs and the VisualStudio
> runtime *out* of mcs and not distribute it as part of mono/mcs until
> they are ready.   The runtime in particular is missing enough pieces
> (from 2.0, but the issue comes up frequently) that I much rather just
> state that we do not support VB.NEt for the time being.
That sounds like a good idea. I do think it is important to keep the
run-time support separate from the compiler like is done for version 1.0
and 1.1 of the .NET framework. I think there is more interest in getting
VB.NET apps to run on Mono than the ability to be able to compile VB.NET
apps using mono.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/
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