Re: [Mono-dev] Mono and the 4.0 profile

2009-11-22 Thread Michael Hutchinson
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > One small follow up: > >>      Pending an audit to verify that no APIs were dropped or renamed, >> perhaps we could also remove the 2.0 assemblies as well and modify the >> runtime to remap all 2.0 assembly references to 4.0 to reduce both

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono and the 4.0 profile

2009-11-20 Thread Charlie Poole
Hi Miguel, > The only downside to dropping the 2.0 profile would be that > Mono could not be used to target the 2.0/3.5 runtimes. > > So perhaps this idea is not as hot as I initially thought. Good thinking. :-) Charlie ___ Mono-devel-list mailin

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono and the 4.0 profile

2009-11-20 Thread APS
As you said, if this change broke compatibility with assembly built against 2.0/3.5 runtime it can be a problem. Maybe you can give a compilation flag and/or two different binary distributions. At 08.05 20/11/2009, Miguel de Icaza wrote: >One small follow up: > > > Pending an audit to verif

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono and the 4.0 profile

2009-11-19 Thread Miguel de Icaza
One small follow up: > Pending an audit to verify that no APIs were dropped or renamed, > perhaps we could also remove the 2.0 assemblies as well and modify the > runtime to remap all 2.0 assembly references to 4.0 to reduce both the > install size and the compilation time. The only downside

[Mono-dev] Mono and the 4.0 profile

2009-11-19 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Since the CLR 4.0 will be shipping early next year, roughly around the same time that we will ship Mono 2.8 I was thinking that we might as well just switch our default now on SVN to be based on the 4.0 profile instead of defaulting to the 2.0 profile; The 4.0 API is pret