Re: [Mono-dev] Plans for new types/methods in .NET 4.6

2015-01-23 Thread Miguel de Icaza 
Hey,

We will not.

You can use 4_5 as the same define that includes new APIs.

Feel free to add away.

Rationale:

   - there is only one GAC assembly for all the 4.0 based assemblies, so
   there is only one assembly used at runtime
   - The only useful purpose of building 4.5 is to get reference
   assemblies, but:
  - I do not think it is worth it to produce reference assemblies for
  4.5-only
  - Because 4.5-only was never quite complete, so our references would
  be incomplete anyways
  - We just abandoned the idea of building the 4.0 references for
  maintenance cost
   - Not even Microsoft's Shared Source tries to produce the reference
   assemblies from a single code base
   - PCLs are a better contract than 4.0, 4.5 or other contracts might be.

So in short, since we are a smaller project, and we have enough in our
hands, with viable alternatives.

Miguel

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Alexander Köplinger 
alex.koeplin...@outlook.com wrote:

 Hey, I'm wondering what the current plan for new types and methods (like
 System.Array.Empty) in .NET 4.6 is?
 Will Mono stick to the net_4_5 profile or will a new profile be created?

 -- Alex


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Re: [Mono-dev] Plans for new types/methods in .NET 4.6

2015-01-23 Thread Marek Safar 
Hi,

Hey, I'm wondering what the current plan for new types and methods (like
 System.Array.Empty) in .NET 4.6 is?
 Will Mono stick to the net_4_5 profile or will a new profile be created?


I think you could use same profile but different define as we'll probably
not include such changes in our mobile profiles before the public API is
stable. On the other hand I am not sure it's worth the effort. I expect
Microsoft to release update to their reference sources as soon as they
release official beta but that's only my expectation. It'd be best to get
confirmation what are their plans with reference sources going forward.

Marek
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[Mono-dev] Plans for new types/methods in .NET 4.6

2015-01-23 Thread Alexander Köplinger 
Hey, I'm wondering what the current plan for new types and methods (like  
System.Array.Empty) in .NET 4.6 is?
Will Mono stick to the net_4_5 profile or will a new profile be created?
 
-- Alex
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