Re: Mono and GNOME. The long reply.

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux <tnt linux ca>]

Hello,

On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 04:13, M G Berberich wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 06. Februar 2002 07:07:19 schrieb Daniel Veillard:
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:29:31AM +0100, M G Berberich wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Am Wednesday, den 06. February 2002 01:06:50 schrieb Miguel de Icaza:
> > > 
> > > > 	My experience so far has been positive, and I have first
> > > >     hands experience on the productivity benefits that these
> > > >     technologies bring to the table.  For instance, our C# compiler is
> > > >     written in C#.  A beautiful piece of code.
> > > 
> > > Why not writing a C#-frontend and a CLI-backend for gcc? This would
> > > would not only give a C# -> CLI Compiler but also a
> > > C# -> [any_architecture] and a {c, c++, ,,,} -> CLI compiler.
> > 
> >   See the FAQ !
> >   http://www.go-mono.org/faq.html#gcc
> 
> Yes, but the question is: Why is Ximian throwing its manpower on a
> standalone C# -> CLI compiler instead of working on gcc.

There's technical reasons for this.