Re: [DotGNU]implementing non ECMA features into pnetlib

[Rhys Weatherley]

David Sugar wrote:
> However, offering my own opinion, I am not sure I like the #ifdef
> ECMA_COMPAT, as that should, after all, be the default :).  Or maybe I
> misunderstood what you meant there...

#if ECMA_COMPAT basically turns off all of the .NET
Framework features.  This isn't as simple as deleting
classes, as there are many classes in ECMA that have
more methods in the .NET Framework, or which depend
upon .NET Framework classes indirectly.

It would be nice to have separate directories for
"ECMA bits here and .NET extensions there".  It just
isn't possible.

Having said that, the #if ECMA_COMPAT is becoming a bit
of a pain to manage, and makes it difficult to slice
the library along other lines.  e.g. building a library
with a particular stripped-down feature set.

I'm still scratching my head on library slicing a bit.
There are two options that I can see:

1. Add more #if's to the code for REFLECTION, REMOTING,
   EXTENDED_NUMERICS, etc.  The result is likely to
   degenerate towards spaghetti.
2. Come up with an attribute tagging system, where
   classes and methods are tagged with the feature name.
   Then the linker can be made to exclude classes and
   methods that don't have the required tags.

Both of these are annoying to implement and keep up to
date.  Any other suggestions?

Cheers,

Rhys.