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* 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.
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