Hi,
Just a heads up for what is around the corner...
TTFN
Paul
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel(a)novell.com>
To: mono-devel <mono-devel-list(a)lists.ximian.com>
Subject: [Mono-dev] Removing Obsolete Code from Mono 2.8
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 01:54:24 -0500
With the upcoming release of Mono 2.8 we are dropping the 1.0 profile as
developers moved a long time ago to the generics-based 2.0 profile and
because it is maintenance burden for us.
In addition to this, I would like to stop distributing some libraries
that were either never completed and are not being actively maintained.
We could move these libraries to a separate module if people would like
to maintain them or keep distributing them.
Here is what I have in mind:
* Drop Microsoft.JScript and `mjs'
Microsoft abandoned JScript, our implementation was never complete,
and DLR-based solutions (all 3 of them) offer better
ECMAScript/Javascript compatibility.
* The ByteFX data provider for MySQL.
It has not been developed since 2004, it is released under the LGPL,
unlike the MySQL driver which is GPL, but nobody has updated the driver.
* FirebirdSql data provider.
The firebird team provides downloads for the database from their web
site from 2010; Our provider was last updated in 2005.
= Debatable =
The Npgsql provider is also maintained externally, but the API that we
have has been maintained in our tree for a while. In the meantime the
upstream project broke binary compatibility. It seems like an extra
burden in our team to maintain the old APIs that upstream developers are
breaking.
Miguel.
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