[Info-vax] MONO (.NET) for VMS

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Friday, 30 January 2015 19:56:18 UTC, John Reagan  wrote:
> On Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 6:52:26 PM UTC-5, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> > On 1/29/15 4:28 PM, Richard Maher wrote:
> > > On 1/29/2015 10:32 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> > >
> > >> It does have one very big internal dependency. You have to have a
> > >> working Mono C# compiler in order to build it. So figuring out how to
> > >> get the bootstrapping compiler up and running would be the first step.
> > >> More info at:
> > >>
> > >> <https://github.com/mono/mono>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > So get John Reagan on it and stop him tinkering with Pascal?
> > 
> > He's implementing MACRO-32 for x86_64 in Pascal??!! :-)
> 
> Hmmm...  That's not a bad idea. :)

MONO may not be a bad idea in principle, but before embarking too
far down that particular road, potential supporters might want to
see how well MONO has worked for others (e.g. Novell/Linux).
Obviously there are potentially differences (technical and
political...) when considering.

And as well as "is it a good idea", there's also a question of how's
it going to be licenced (already known for Mono) and how's it going
to be shipped (part of OS - probably not here, alongside OS e.g. on
separately installable DVD/USBstick/download, or shipped entirely
independently of the OS).

Food for thought.

Have a lot of fun.