| 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061626364656667 |
- * Tools
- We need a number of tools to make people productive using a
- Mono-based solution. Some of these tools can be developed on
- Windows before Mono is fully finished.
- All of these tools should be written using C#.
- For the tools that are typically command line tools: Try to
- write these as components that could load their input from
- streams or collections of streams, and implement the command
- line tools as wrappers around those classes.
- For example, we will be making the C# compiler a component
- that could be reused by applications that might have a use for
- the various bits of the compiler (either to embed the
- compiler, or reuse the code generator part of it).
- This is important so that these components (compiler,
- assembler, linker, etc) can be integrated later into the
- visual development environment (hopefully with the help of the
- SharpDevelop hackers).
- TODO=ilasm,IL Assembler
- ** IL Assembler.
- This assembler should basically take as input a file
- containing IL bytecodes as specified in the `Partition II' of
- the ECMA spec, and produce a binary file.
- TODO=al,Assembly Linker
- ** Assembly Linker.
- This tool is used to construct assemblies, which are basically
- deployment units for CLI executables.
- TODO=debugger,Debugger
- ** Debugger
- We will need a debugging API to debug CLI applications and
- then a debugger component that can be used in an IDE
- environment.
- TODO=ide,Integrated Development Environment
- ** Integrated Development Environment
- There is already a project to create a C# development
- environment: <a
- href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">SharpDevelop</a>.
- People should work with the SharpDevelop hackers to produce a
- unified development environment.
- Please work with the SharpDevelop hackers to build a good IDE.
- We will work on creating an embedable compiler component and
- an embeddable debugger component that can be used withing
- SharpDevelop
- TODO=hbrowser,Help Browser
- ** Help Browser
- We need a good help browser that can be used to browse
- documentation. Ideally this help browser can accept as input
- XML Docbook input and an assorted set of file formats
- (Microsoft Help, Unix manual pages, Unix Info pages)
- Look at the GNOME DevHelp for a good set of ideas on how to
- implement this.
|