From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 03:12:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D83C16A4CE for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:12:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from straycat.dhs.org (c-24-60-174-16.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.60.174.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3F643D48 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:12:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from compass.straycat.dhs.org (compass.straycat.dhs.org [192.168.1.48]) by straycat.dhs.org (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2V3DZRh008040; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:13:37 -0500 (EST) From: Tom McLaughlin To: Phillip Neumann In-Reply-To: <424B28F7.2010302@sofsis.cl> References: <424B28F7.2010302@sofsis.cl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:12:57 -0500 Message-Id: <1112238777.803.41.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mono / libpthread bounty (was: $$$?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:12:15 -0000 On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 22:32 +0000, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Hello... > > > I just wanted to know.. how many of us are interested on getting > mono-freebsd thread issues to solve?.. > > > Maybe some freebsd kernel thread ppl need motivation... > > i would take some money out of my little-pocket to motivate to do what > it needs to get mono to work 99% ... > > > do i think its a good idea?... > While I'm opposed to agreeing to paying a specific person to look at the problems (I don't have the necessary qualifications to know how to "hire" someone), I'm not opposed to contributing money towards a bounty but I do have some minor reservations. The only problem with a bounty that I see is determining its parameters. Just because MonoDevelop and XSP work, doesn't mean all our threading problems will be solved. Problems people "haven't experienced yet" may still linger or new ones may be introduced. The other problem is a lot of the work from my understanding of my last emails to freebsd-threads will be in libpthread. The person's work will need to be accepted by FreeBSD's threads developers too. If someone wants to even just take a look at Mono and libpthread to determine what the problems are that would be great. (I'd like another opinion than the one I've already gotten to make sure we know what is really wrong.) I'm really interested in what any of the FreeBSD people on this list think too. Is this wise? Thanks, Tom -- BSD# Project - Porting Mono to FreeBSD http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?bsd-sharp