Cloverleaf GSoC 2008 Final Report

Well, this is somewhat (and by “somewhat” I mean “really, really”) late, but I figured I had to get it out the door, since Miguel has a blog post chatting about it and I want to mooch some hits off him. (Hey, at least I’m honest.)

As mentioned in my original post on the topic, my Google Summer of Code project was Cloverleaf–a package of semi-related tools to facilitate developing for Mono while using Visual Studio. The idea was to lower the barriers to targeting Mono. So…well, I did.

All of the individual functionality mentioned in that post works, for at least nontrivial values of “works.” Test In Mono, Test With Gendarme, Test Remotely, all of it’s working in the “external tools” form of the program, able to be used in either VS2008 or VC# Express. Jonathan Pobst has done some work with it as part of Novell’s Hack Week; you can find some details on what he’s done with the external tools app at his blog.

What did not get done was the add-in that bolts into Visual Studio directly, as opposed to the external tools. However, it’s not like I’m done with the project–those are still on my agenda to get done and release. It’s still my project, so to speak, though I’m flattered that Jonathan saw fit to do some work on it.

If you’d like to download it from Subversion, you can get it at the GSoC repository. Instructions to make it work can be found here, though I recommend using jpobst’s stuff.

Many thanks to Miguel de Icaza, Michael Hutchinson, Jonathan Pobst, and Andreia Gaita for all their help!