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 	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 (SharpDevelop).  People could work with the
-	SharpDevelop hackers to produce a unified development environment.
+	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.
 
-** Help Browser
-
-	We need a good help browser that can be used to browse all the
-	Mono documentation.
+	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. 
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