Re: The state of MonoDevelop

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 13:27, Todd Berman wrote:

> > Very cool. Why did you decide to try GtkSourceView instead of the port
> > of MD's own editor?
Two reasons, one, as todd mentioned, is gnome integreation. Second is
perf. The ported buffer pretty much sucks wrt performance.

> If you (or Ben) wants to discuss how to
> > improve/change gtksourceview, it's best to include Paolo (gedit
> > maintainer) and Gustavo (co-maintainer of gtksourceview) in the
> > discussion (and please CC me as well :) ).
> 
> Ironically, I believe he just did that ;)
Yes I did.  My emails to Paolo bounced; Paolo, once your server is
functioning again, please tell me, i know you said you were having
problems.


> Yeah, its something I have been thinking about a bit.
> 
> MD (by being a port of #D) already has a very very mature plugin
> framework. I was looking at it briefly, and It looks completely feasible
> to write a C/C# plugin bridge that would allow you to write plugins in C
> and with a small amount of C#, tie them into MD. As for something like
> python, as I mentioned, if you take python, and use a compiler like
> Python.NET to compile it to the CLI framework, it would interop without
> any additional steps.

It would be possible to completely do it from C. However, I think you
would really only want to do that for deep down things (a debugger,
etc).

-- Ben