On Jul 10, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Dimitris Tavlikos wrote: > 2. Support. Stackoverflow is nice, but not enough. If this means that I have > to pay more for the product, so be it. I am willing to do that as long as I > know I will get a solution. > 3. Community tools: mailing lists do not bring more people, forums do.
Seeing as I'm easily confused, could you elaborate on the intersection between (2) and (3)? StackOverflow is "forum-like," except actually useful (you don't need to look through N "discussion" pages to find the answer to a given question), yet StackOverflow is "not enough". What role do you see a forum fulfilling that a mailing list/StackOverflow doesn't? (Also keep in mind that many people, e.g. me, find it difficult/annoying keeping "on top of" web forums w/o an email interface, and that email fits into our normal "workflow." StackOverflow also works because I can get an RSS feed of various topics, so at least I'll be alerted of various questions, but forums? Unless there's a _decent_ email/forum interface (such as what Google Groups provides), I personally find forums to be more painful than useful. Your mileage, of course, will vary.) > On the technical side, I'd love a linker whitelist and blacklist on types, > instead of Do not link - SDK only - All assemblies. But I do not know how > easy this would be. The [Preserve] [0] attribute allows some intermediate support. Mono for Android provides the "-linkskip" option [1] to specify which assemblies to skip linking on; MonoTouch has had this since 1.1.1 [2]. Perhaps these would be useful? Thanks, - Jon [0] http://docs.go-mono.com/MonoTouch.Foundation.PreserveAttribute [1] http://mono-android.net/Documentation/Linking#linkskip [2] http://monotouch.net/Releases/MonoTouch_1/MonoTouch_1.1.1 _______________________________________________ MonoTouch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch
