This deserves to be cross-posted. I had heard many people express concern about mono and the .NET API, in the wake of oracle v google, and especially in the recent-ish reversal of decision, which now rules an API to be copyrightable.
Congratulations to Mono, and the people named by Miguel below, and thank you Microsoft. :-) And congratulations to Oracle, for continuing to destroy java like a bunch of idiots. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:mono-devel-list- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Miguel de Icaza > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 12:41 PM > To: mono-devel > Subject: [Mono-dev] .NET API documentation > > Hello guys, > > Today we launched Xamarin 3, and as part of this release, we are announcing > a big contribution from Microsoft. > > Microsoft has released the .NET API documentation under a Creative > Commons license. > > This means a few things: > • Mono now has complete docs for use on Mac and Linux > • MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio will now provide full docs during code- > completion while editing the source code. > Many thanks should go to Bryan Costanich that nursed this process and > to our friends at Microsoft that made this possible. Including Scott > Guthrie, > S Somasegar, Richard Lander and everyone that did the work to get us the > bits. > > The documentation is checked into mono/mcs/class, on their respective > assemblies. > > While we have imported most of the documentation now, our importing > tools still fail in a handful of cases, so you will see the documentation get > more and more in shape in the next couple of weeks. We will also start to > integrate the various off-line samples that are part of the documentation. > > Cheers! > Miguel _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
