Hello, > On the other hand 20,000 lines of someone elses code is a lot to grapple with > when porting from one OS to another and having a peak at code flow and > variable values can save masses of time. I'm only using Kate as my editor as > well, so I already don't have Intellisense, context sensitive help, or the > "goto definition" function I love so much. Still, progress is incredibly > rapid, due mainly I'd say to two things: > > 1. The guys (work programming team who wrote the software I am about to > convert) did a top notch job on the coding. > 2. You and the Mono team have done an incredible job matching the API with the > MS API. I have 17,000 lines already compiled and at least mostly working in 1 > day and with only 4 lines of code changed (damn back slashes). > > I'm pretty hopeful I can get the code across, and even get it performing well > too...now I gotta try and see if I can convince the company to Open Source it > once I have done the conversion *sigh*. It's a very neat content management > system BTW.
Good luck to you on that project; As I said, I really wish we were there already with the debugger, but it can get tricky. I would love to hear about this commercial Content Management system once it runs with Mono, it would be nice to see how many changes were required. Miguel _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
