Re: [Mono-dev] Deprecating some Mono commands, Cecil mono-api-info

2008-03-03 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
I personally prefer to have a phased deprecation including a period of increasingly more annoying impediments. Here are some examples that I've seen work: * warning messages with feedback url * enforced periods of delay prior to executing commands * eventual removal of deprecated code and

Re: [Mono-dev] Deprecating some Mono commands, Cecil mono-api-info

2008-03-03 Thread Jonathan Pobst
Additionally, I believe that the Cecil-based mono-api-info is a better implementation than the SRE-based implementation. And am wondering if we should just replace our current implementation with the version living in cecil (this would also eliminate mono-api-info and mono-api-info2).

Re: [Mono-dev] Deprecating some Mono commands, Cecil mono-api-info

2008-03-03 Thread Alan McGovern
Well, if you look at the output you'll see that the cecil one is considerably more condensed and readable than the SRE one, so that could easily explain the filesize difference. For example, the 'ClearProps(in System.Byte, in System.UInt32, in System.Guid, in System.Int32)' method is 7 lines in

Re: [Mono-dev] Deprecating some Mono commands, Cecil mono-api-info

2008-03-03 Thread Jonathan Pobst
Right, it is more condensed because it is missing the rest of the information. :) For your example, it is missing the attributes on the parameters. Both files should be exactly the same. Jonathan Alan McGovern wrote: Well, if you look at the output you'll see that the cecil one is

Re: [Mono-dev] Deprecating some Mono commands, Cecil mono-api-info

2008-03-02 Thread Miguel de Icaza
I have yet to succesfully compile a version of monodevelop that actually can be used for anything - all my tries end up giving me crashes. Still looking for a stable release of monodevelop, btw. This is not to diss monodevelop - I am simply reporting my personal experience. Since

Re: [Mono-dev] Deprecating some Mono commands, Cecil mono-api-info

2008-03-02 Thread Mads Bondo Dydensborg
mandag 03 Marts 2008 skrev Sandy Armstrong: On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Mads Bondo Dydensborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: torsdag 28 Februar 2008 skrev Miguel de Icaza: I have yet to succesfully compile a version of monodevelop that actually can be used for anything - all my tries

Re: [Mono-dev] Deprecating some Mono commands, Cecil mono-api-info

2008-02-29 Thread Mirco Bauer
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 10:52 +0530, Ankit Jain wrote: Someone really needs to write a man page for mdtool. (I'm not volunteering; I have enough man pages to write for mdoc as it is...) It already exists :-) -Ankit From mdtool's manpage: generate-makefiles solution-file

Re: [Mono-dev] Deprecating some Mono commands, Cecil mono-api-info

2008-02-28 Thread Mirco Bauer
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 16:35 -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote: Hey folks, For Mono 2.0 I believe it would be useful to deprecate a few commands that have better replacements or that are not that useful anymore. We could either remove the commands, or have them issue a warning that the code

Re: [Mono-dev] Deprecating some Mono commands, Cecil mono-api-info

2008-02-28 Thread Jonathan Pryor
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 00:00 +0100, Mirco Bauer wrote: * prj2make - Use MonoDevelop instead. Hmmm, the only problem I see is that there is no easy known way to use prj2make from command-line only through MonoDevelop. I know that some non-C# developers use prj2make in debian to get some

Re: [Mono-dev] Deprecating some Mono commands, Cecil mono-api-info

2008-02-28 Thread Robert Jordan
Jonathan Pryor wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 00:00 +0100, Mirco Bauer wrote: * prj2make - Use MonoDevelop instead. Hmmm, the only problem I see is that there is no easy known way to use prj2make from command-line only through MonoDevelop. I know that some non-C# developers use prj2make in

Re: [Mono-dev] Deprecating some Mono commands, Cecil mono-api-info

2008-02-28 Thread Lluis Sanchez
El dv 29 de 02 del 2008 a les 00:27 +0100, en/na Robert Jordan va escriure: Jonathan Pryor wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 00:00 +0100, Mirco Bauer wrote: * prj2make - Use MonoDevelop instead. Hmmm, the only problem I see is that there is no easy known way to use prj2make from

Re: [Mono-dev] Deprecating some Mono commands, Cecil mono-api-info

2008-02-28 Thread Ankit Jain
Someone really needs to write a man page for mdtool. (I'm not volunteering; I have enough man pages to write for mdoc as it is...) It already exists :-) -Ankit ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com