2001-09-20 Miguel de Icaza <miguel@ximian.com>

[mono.git] / web / tools

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        Mono-based solution.  Some of these tools can be developed on
        Windows before Mono is fully finished.
 
+       All of these tools should be written using C#.  
+
+       For the tools that are typically command line tools: Try to
+       write these as components that could load their input from
+       streams or collections of streams, and implement the command
+       line tools as wrappers around those classes.
+
+       For example, we will be making the C# compiler a component
+       that could be reused by applications that might have a use for
+       the various bits of the compiler (either to embed the
+       compiler, or reuse the code generator part of it).  
+
+       This is important so that these components (compiler,
+       assembler, linker, etc) can be integrated later into the
+       visual development environment (hopefully with the help of the
+       SharpDevelop hackers). 
+
+TODO=ilasm,IL Assembler
+** IL Assembler.
+
+       This assembler should basically take as input a file
+       containing IL bytecodes as specified in the `Partition II' of
+       the ECMA spec, and produce a binary file.
+
+TODO=al,Assembly Linker
+** Assembly Linker.
+
+       This tool is used to construct assemblies, which are basically
+       deployment units for CLI executables.
+
+TODO=debugger,Debugger
 ** Debugger
 
        We will need a debugging API to debug CLI applications and
        then a debugger component that can be used in an IDE
        environment.
 
+TODO=ide,Integrated Development Environment
 ** Integrated Development Environment
 
        There is already a project to create a C# development
-       environment (SharpDevelop).  People could work with the
-       SharpDevelop hackers to produce a unified development environment.
+       environment: <a
+       href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">SharpDevelop</a>.
+       People should work with the SharpDevelop hackers to produce a
+       unified development environment.
 
-** Help Browser
-
-       We need a good help browser that can be used to browse all the
-       Mono documentation.
+       Please work with the SharpDevelop hackers to build a good IDE.
+       We will work on creating an embedable compiler component and
+       an embeddable debugger component that can be used withing
+       SharpDevelop
 
+TODO=hbrowser,Help Browser
+** Help Browser
 
+       We need a good help browser that can be used to browse
+       documentation.  Ideally this help browser can accept as input
+       XML Docbook input and an assorted set of file formats
+       (Microsoft Help, Unix manual pages, Unix Info pages)
 
+       Look at the GNOME DevHelp for a good set of ideas on how to
+       implement this. 
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