Hello, > I have some changes and additions to the > Microsoft.VisualBasic libraries. > It looks like other than a few changes in the last week, > neither the libraries nor the compiler have been worked on in months. > Are these still being developed? > Who is currently in charge?
Novell is no longer working on the VB.NET compiler. It was originally one of the planned features for Mono 1.2, but we we decided to retarget our efforts. There were a number of reasons for this decision: * MBas became increasingly hard to maintain. mbas was based on a very old version of mcs, and did not get any of the later improvements in mcs. * The runtime is still there, and its today probably the most important piece, as it allows existing VB.NET applications to run on Mono. * ASP.NET 2.0 now supports pre-compiled sites, so a major reason for implementing VB.NET for us is gone (running the resulting VB pages). I would still like to have a complete VB compiler, but considering everything else we have to do and the above considerations, an open source VB.NET compiler is not something Novell will be devoting resources to right now. On the other hand, there is a group called MonoBasic. They are funded in Brazil to do some work on the compiler. Every once in a while they will commit some code, but it does not seem to be very steady. Miguel _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
