[Pkg-mono-devel] NUnit, NAnt, and C# 2.0 features

Mirco Bauer meebey at meebey.net
Mon Mar 6 09:43:31 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 02:10 -0600, Edward Cho wrote:
> Obviously, NUnit cannot support generics b/c it was not built against
> the 2.0 classlibs.  And b/c NUnit is built with NAnt, there currently
> is no way to target the 2.0 classlibs without patching NAnt first. 
> And seeing how both NUnit and NAnt are both packaged differently for
> .NET 1.0 and .NET 2.0, I think we can expect different packages for
> Mono 1.0 and Mono 1.2, respectively.
> 
> Am I right in thinking that C# 2.0 support needs to be added to NUnit
> and NAnt in the 1.2 timeframe?
> 
> If so, what else needs to be done besides the following?  Is this the
> right approach? And how does it fit with Debian's Mono packaging
> policy?
> 1) Extend NAnt to target Mono 1.2.
> 2) Extend nunit-mono to target Mono 1.0 AND Mono 1.2

There should be an extra nunit package that supports CLI 2.0, just like
we have gnunit and gnunit2, because the 2.0 part is still experimental
and should not be mainstream yet, see mono-gmcs package description
warning.

Jelmer: please see the final 0.3.0 policy at the pkg-mono site about the
naming :)

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Mirco 'meebey' Bauer

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