Re: ./mono: remaining pieces

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> There are four remaining that have not yet been added to the ./mono
> directory:
> 
> * xsp-1.0.9
> a small web server that hosts the Mono System.Web classes for running
> what is commonly known as ASP.NET.
> 
> * mod-mono-1.0.9
> an apache module that provides ASP.NET functionality.
> 
> * boo-0.5.5.1651
>  a scripting language similar to Python designed for the .NET Framework
> [http://boo.codehaus.org/Home]
> 
> * ikvm-0.14
> a JIT compiler that translates from JVM bytecodes into CIL instructions,
> and then lets the native JIT engine take over.
> 
> 
> The question is, 
> 
>         "How much of this stuff should we be including in the GARNOME
>         tree?
> 
> The answer should probably be,
> 
>         "Whatever we need to build the applications."

I agree here. Which, btw, is a "no" to all 4 mentioned above.


> Now that we have started to add development tools, that answer may no
> longer be appropriate.

Well, development tools are not in desktop and dependencies. They are in
supplementary meta-garballs.

The packages mentioned above provide "features" no user ever [1] will
need. And I really don't think we should include apps to provide web
services like the above or even worse, depend on apache.

...guenther


[1] With the current goals of those apps in mind.


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