[MonoDevelop] ideas

Todd Berman tberman@gentoo.org
Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:37:06 -0500


On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 22:38, Sam Hamilton wrote:
> All,
> I couldn't agree more with the thought that MonoDevelop on Windows 
> would end up being wasted effort. Those people using and developing on 
> windows have the options that Todd mentioned. It makes far more sense 
> to finally deliver a complete IDE on Gnome. All the better that its 
> showing the work that the Mono community has done and the potential 
> benefits to Gnome users every where.

Seems to be a running theme, lets get some more opinions, but thats
looking like where we might be leaning :)

> I also feel strongly that MonoDoc meets 99.5% of the requirements that 
> most developers have for documentation. Its robust and easy to use. No 
> need to reinvent that wheel in my opinion.

Sorry I was unclear here, we have always planned on embedding monodoc
components for documentation browsing, the question was more geared
towards application help :)

> Finally, is anyone seeing a problem opening a Combine. I was receiving 
> an unhandled exception in 
> ICSharpCode.SharpRefactory.Parser.AST.PrimitiveExpression that would 
> cause MonoDev to crash upon opening a combine. Adding the correct 
> try/catch solves the problem. I'm running gtk# HEAD and mono daily 
> 1.13.2003.

This is most likely a Parser bug, we are finding a lot of these, I'm not
100% sure why, you should be able to isolate this down to a single file,
and then down to a small code snippet, if you could do that and file a
bug, it would help us a lot :)

--Todd

> Thanks.
> 
> Sam Hamilton