Hi Miguel, Can you be a little more specific? Will you be removing all 1.0 specific code (paths)? Will support for building the net_1_1 profile be removed altogether (or will you just need to opt-in)? Will you discourage packagers to include the net_1_1 profile? I understand that Novell itself cannot continue supporting all profiles, but I think you should at least allow the community to continue this.
1.0 applications can indeed run on 2.0 runtimes, but rest assured that you'll get a difference in behavior. This is mostly because lots of bugs where fixed since net_1_1, but in some cases that bug compatibility is actually needed. Gert -----Original Message----- From: mono-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Miguel de Icaza Sent: maandag 20 juli 2009 23:46 To: mono-list; mono-devel-list; Mono Announce Subject: [Mono-list] The Mono 1.0 profile. Hello folks, The upcoming Mono 2.6 will be the last Mono release to support the .NET 1.0 profile. Pretty much all developers have moved to use generics-aware code these days, and supporting the 1.0 profile has become an large tax on the development team. 1.0 applications run just fine on 2.0 runtimes, so few users will be affected by 1.0-only bugs or dependencies (we are bug compatible in a few places with the 1.0 behavior). Users that still want to run 1.0 applications will be able to do so by keeping an older version of Mono around (2.4 or 2.6, plus whatever is the latest Mono release). The tax means that we need to continue developing and maintaining libraries that are not able to take advantage of 2.0 features for old users, and it means that build times are longer, regression test suites have to be run twice, and we have to keep and maintain bug compatibility with another version. Miguel. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - mono-l...@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list Internal Virus Database is out of date. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.285 / Virus Database: 270.13.12/2234 - Release Date: 07/12/09 17:56:00 _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list