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

[John Goerzen]

On Monday 30 August 2004 03:00 am, Paolo Molaro wrote:
> 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.

OK, but we should have some sort of scheme then, since right now parts 
of pnet have to conflict with parts of mono due to that file.

> >  * 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!

Indeed.  A little tweaking shows it's even capable of running Jython.  
(That's a fun little one to wrap your mind around <g>)

-- 
John Goerzen
Author, Foundations of Python Network Programming
http://www.complete.org/pynet