[Pkg-mono-devel] Some new .NET stuff

Paolo Molaro lupus@debian.org
Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:00:54 +0200


On 08/27/04 John Goerzen wrote:
>  * Sponsored upload of ajmitch's DotGNU Portable .NET packages.
>    This would be the first non-Mono .NET implementation in Debian.
>    The pnet cscc is of particular interest to me, as it can compile
>    (some) C programs into .NET programs.  We will likely need to 
> use /etc/alternatives for /usr/bin/al.

Note that this is not a good idea at this time: pnet's al and mono's al
have different capabilities, so a program that expects one version and
ends up using the other may fail.

>  * Packaged and uploaded ikvm.  It can act as a Java virtual machine or 
> can compile Java JAR files into .NET DLLs.  Java code can access .NET 
> and vice-versa.

Nice!
lupus

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