[Opensim-dev] C# 3.0 vs .Net 2

[Sean Dague]

Stefan Andersson wrote:
> Yo.
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> Feeling a bit stupid here, but just realized that many C# 3.0 features =
(lambda expressions and inferred types, for example) compiles just fine t=
o the .Net 2 IL, so in practise, it can be used if the installed csc supp=
orts it.
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> What I'm saying is that we can probably start using some C# 3.0 feature=
s already even on mono (I guess) without moving from .Net 2.0. Question i=
s, what features?
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> Could any mono person have a look at what C# 3.0 constructs are actuall=
y backwards compatible with .Net 2.0 on mono?

One approach would be to make a new unit test that used some of those
features, then it would be easy for people to test with their
environment.  I suspect mono 1.9.1 is still going to have issues, and we
haven't committed to dumping it yet (as that's what is shipping in the
latest stable release of Ubuntu, which a lot of people are using).

The new Ubuntu release comes out in April with Mono 2.0.2, so we can
leave 1.9.1 behind in the near future.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague / Neas Bade
sdague at gmail.com
http://dague.net


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