Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-08-02 Thread Kornél Pál
Hi, Mono 2.0 (Preview 1) is available for download on http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/preview/download-preview/ This includes a lot of improvements over version 1.9 including my work on supporting mixed-mode assemblies. Please try it. Feedback is welcome, version 2.0 has not been released yet.

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-16 Thread Kornél Pál
Hi, I have spent some time to investigate the mixed-mode msvcrt issue. There are three different runtime DLLs: msvcm80/90.dll managed C++ runtime implemented using native code msvcp80/90.dll C++ runtime msvcr80/90.dll C runtime The managed version does only have it's own functionaly while even m

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-15 Thread Kornél Pál
> From: Juan Lang > The main contributors that have not done so that I saw after a quick > perusal were Alexandre and Rob Shearman. If you can't get their > permission, you'd have to start with the last MIT/X11 licensed > version, or get Transgaming's most recent ReWind version and start > from th

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-15 Thread Robert Shearman
Kornél Pál wrote: > Also note that Mono's Class Library is licensed under MIT/X11 because > inlining (done by the runtime) may be incompatible with GPL that would not > allow non-GPL programs to be executed within Mono. Would it be possible to > have a MIT/X11 licensed msvcrt? I'm not sure if y

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-15 Thread Juan Lang
> I've learned the hard way that it doesn't make sense to discuss this stuff > before you actually have the code. So I'd suggest you first go and see if you > can get the authors of that dll to agree to relicense for you and once that's > done, we can discuss what happens with Wine's copy. I'll tr

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-15 Thread Kai Blin
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 14:48:53 Kornél Pál wrote: > But I would like to know if the Wine community is willing to license msvcrt > under MIT/X11 after that in the future in Wine's source repository to help > Mono? I've learned the hard way that it doesn't make sense to discuss this stuff before

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-14 Thread Dan Kegel
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Kornél Pál <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If contributors agree only the current version will be MIT/X11 licensed. > > But I would like to know if the Wine community is willing to license msvcrt > under MIT/X11 after that in the future in Wine's source repository to h

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-14 Thread Kornél Pál
> From: Steven Edwards >> So the question is: If the current authors permit to make msvcrt MIX/X11 >> licensed would it be possible to make Wine's msvcrt MIT/X11 licensed for >> future releases as well (no legal question but philosophical)? > > You will need to review the git history and contact

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-14 Thread Steven Edwards
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Kornél Pál <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So the question is: If the current authors permit to make msvcrt MIX/X11 > licensed would it be possible to make Wine's msvcrt MIT/X11 licensed for > future releases as well (no legal question but philosophical)? You will

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-14 Thread Kornél Pál
> From: Dan Kegel >> Also note that Mono's Class Library is licensed under MIT/X11 because >> inlining (done by the runtime) may be incompatible with GPL that would >> not >> allow non-GPL programs to be executed within Mono. Would it be possible >> to >> have a MIT/X11 licensed msvcrt? > > That'

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-14 Thread Dan Kegel
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Kornél Pál <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because mixed-mode (there is no pure managed version) msvcrts require > Managed C++ and C++/CLI and there is no open source compiler supporting any > of these so MS compilers would be required. Bleah. Well, you gotta do wha

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-14 Thread Kornél Pál
Hi, > From: Dan Kegel > But Wine has its own increasingly useful implementation of msvcrt, > at least the part that uses the C api. (The C++ api is difficult for us > because it has to be written in C; g++ uses a different ABI than Microsoft > C++.) > > Perhaps, once we work the kinks out, Mono

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-10 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Friday 09 May 2008, Dan Kegel wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Kornél Pál <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Currently it's very unlikely that Mono will have it's own MSVCRTs (I mean > > mixed-mode versions) in the near future. Do you know whether they are > > redistributable? > > Yes, but t

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-09 Thread Dan Kegel
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Kornél Pál <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently it's very unlikely that Mono will have it's own MSVCRTs (I mean > mixed-mode versions) in the near future. Do you know whether they are > redistributable? Yes, but the license is restrictive, and you can't redistribu

Re: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-09 Thread Kornél Pál
To: "Wine Developers List" Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 12:18 PM Subject: mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies... http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-devel-list/2008-May/027767.html shows that Pál Kornél is now working on supporting apps that use msvcrt. Go Pal go!

mono progress on mixed-mode assemblies...

2008-05-09 Thread Dan Kegel
http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-devel-list/2008-May/027767.html shows that Pál Kornél is now working on supporting apps that use msvcrt. Go Pal go!