Mono is a platform for running and developing applications based on the ecma/iso standards. mono is an open source effort led by novell. mono provides a complete clr (common language runtime) including compiler and runtime, which can produce and execute cil (common intermediate language) bytecode (aka assemblies), and a class library.

this package contains the mono.getoptions library for cli 2.0 that allows to parse command line options and arguments easily.