[MonoDevelop] Core / Extras and building

[Todd Berman]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 17:30 -0500, John Luke wrote:
>Hey all,
>	I was mucking in the makefiles today to make it easier to run
>MonoDevelop with mono -debug (and have it work) and I noticed something.
>We have a rather curious Core/Extras split.
>

The Core and Extras split never was really finished. I had to spend too
much time tuning building stuff in other places.

>Here are my thoughts of what should be moved to Extras:
>- language bindings for external languages (Java and Nemerle probably)

Absolutely.

>- things that are not stable enough to be in Core (we'll make an
>exception for the debugger)

The debugger should move.

>- anything with odd dependencies
>
>I actually think MonoDeveloperExtensions can probably move from Extras
>to Core.

Not sure, read below.

>
>Last I don't think Extras should be included in the normal auto* build,
>as it makes distcheck harder, etc. They should either each have their
>own build methods, or one top-level auto setup for Extras.
>
>

I disagree. Here is my opinion on that. Everything in Extras/ should
either a) be conditionally built based on various package availability,
and/or b) be --enable-this-plugin switched on/off. Having a single
unified build system is far better in general, and makes it easier to
build tarballs/etc. The only things (IMO) in Core/ should be stuff that
either a) MonoDevelop *requires* or b) MonoDevelop users basically
require (for an example, the C# binding is not 'required' by
monodevelop, however, most of our users would like to see it built and
installed by default).

Any thoughts?

--Todd