[MonoDevelop] GSoC 2010, F# language binding

[Vasili I. Galchin]

On 4/5/10, lost <lostfreeman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you, Piotr!
>
>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 06:10, lost <lostfreeman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This year I've decided to take part in Google Summer of Code. I've
>>> checked Mono's StudentProjects page and found a note about F# binding.
>>> There was a suggestion to write to mailing list, mhutch or lluis
>>> specifically.
>>
>> First of all you should know that Vasili Glachin has spent a lot of
>> time and effort working on an F# binding recently.
>> You can find his code here: http://github.com/vasili/FSharpBinding/
>> I'm pretty sure Vasili won't mind somebody helping out, but since a
>> GSoC project should be a well defined and measurable unit of work,
>> maybe you could work on a specific feature like code completion or the
>> refactoring engine? Or both of them depending on how much work is
>> involved. Micheal is probably the best person to talk about that.
>> One project that would be extremely cool, in opinion of course, is
>> getting Stetic to produce F# code for the UI. That would be first ever
>> since even VS will not have a graphical designer for F#.
>
> I've checked github, and found only 1 commit with project system
> support only (did not tested it). I will probably use these code, but
> currently it is almost ground level. So focusing on UI is impossible
> as almost nothing works. I think I need to work on syntax highlighting
> and completion support first.
>
>>> Before writting an application I should be aware of the following:
>>>
>>> Do you need your own compiler or using existing fsc from Microsoft is ok?
>>> Can I use CodeDom library, provided with Microsoft F#?
>>> These two questions are about licensing. I've also asked in F# forum (
>>> http://cs.hubfs.net/forums/thread/13591.aspx ), but still have no
>>> answer.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure using fsc should be OK, especially if Microsoft keep
>> their promise of releasing it under Ms-PL. We should know that soon
>> after they release VS2010.
>
> It seems CodeDom from PowerPack is capable of compilation for ASP.NET only.
>
>>> Can I write binding in F# itself, specifically, is it ok to have
>>> reference to FSharp.Core and FSharp.PowerPack libraries from Microsoft
>>> build?
>>
>> The less external dependencies the better. I would recommend getting
>> as far as possible without using any external code.
>> Of course if you decide to work on the source code completion or
>> refactoring engine, using CodeDom probably be acceptable, especially
>> if it is created as an optional feature of the binding.
>>
>
> I've found that PowerPack is published under MS-PL. So it is ok to be used?
>
> P.S. It would be nice to hear a word from any mentors.
>
> Best regards,
> Milovanov Victor.
>

Victor,

      I have already started to work on highlighting as well as clean
extant code. Let's be careful that we don't "run into each other". I
have already spent ~4 weeks on this project.

Regards,

Vasili