[EMAIL PROTECTED] (holger krekel) writes:

> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 15:15 +0100, Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote:
>> Will the .NET backend use the ootypesystem (which is what gensqueak 
>> uses) or the lltypesystem (which is what genllvm, genc and genjavascript 
>> uses)? I guess for C# the former would make more sense, but I have no 
>> clue how low-level IL is (I don't really have any clue about .NET at all 
>> :-).
>
> at first i also thought that ootypesystem might make sense - but then 
> i considered that the Intermediate Language is statically typed 
> and so far i guess it's more similar to our LLVM backend
> then to a Squeak backend.  But i am not aware of all the involved 
> details so i might guess wrong. 

I don't really know much about the CLI either, but I think we want
RPython classes to be CLI classes to allow interaction with other CLI
languages and frameworks, and that means using the ootypesystem.

> And i agree with Carl that considering to simply work within our
> common pypy/translator directory is sensible and improves feedback
> possibilities. 

Me too.

Cheers,
mwh

-- 
   This proposal, if accepted, will probably mean a heck of a lot of
   work for somebody.  But since I don't want it accepted, I don't
   care.                                   -- Laura Creighton, PEP 666

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