On 08-Nov-2002, Miguel de Icaza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > > That would not be a good course of action, IMHO, since it means that > > either (1) you are forking the Eclipse sources, or (2) you are depending > > on a proprietry tool to build your source each time, both of which are > > seriously undesirable. > > This serves a number of purposes for me though: > > * A big regression test suite for MCS. > * A big regression test suite for Mono. > * A chance to fine tune mono to run it at a decent speed.
OK, those are good reasons. However IMHO it would be bad if you start treating it as more than a good test case. > * The change to run Eclipse on a full open source platform If you're using a proprietry non-open-source tool to compile it, then it's not a full open source platform, is it? The tool chain is part of the platform, IMHO. So I don't see what the advantage of this would be. > * Convince Microsoft to open source JUMP ;-) Good luck -- I think you'll need it! ;-) -- Fergus Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "I have always known that the pursuit The University of Melbourne | of excellence is a lethal habit" WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
