From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Mon Sep 4 09:32:18 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D54FE1E922 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2017 09:32:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ik@sjmulder.nl) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E60E6CC1E for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2017 09:32:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ik@sjmulder.nl) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 282FF20D76 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2017 05:31:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 04 Sep 2017 05:31:58 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sjmulder.nl; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=eM/C5sX8Z9/Ly6Z niJSN/WgR8/ARczlIt7lU5C+jBiA=; b=m5KRMFyqGk2BeduICqjmJxO9sxvQ541 8dbrFXdo7uGD9Es4MMmXZ5Ym3KN+++21ftXKRMQKm6iwuAxErzZ5Fh5FSKnEqARB JgO7kvI12whISpd3djhfXxpm2L9no/xi3at529EYOTUkqpDY8UtwH5wI+VXADM80 wuo6hkzTGEc0= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s= fm1; bh=eM/C5sX8Z9/Ly6ZniJSN/WgR8/ARczlIt7lU5C+jBiA=; b=ONiYaeWr z3KGx/5CP8a6HVuMVa/mxI3YqIIKHg4y5X8N9aJ9RuKRxYNEiuot56+ym+32cT5F uCMJeKF3G7ErZkRFmkfu4X5mA9Joc4LPPFR7oUFH7ka51yGtXK8TwHChbsnzNuPC t1II0GHyUlj5/fwq7nnn/4EcF7R4BG4RtK0t7rAFL7t2UXKR7zDiAJX2Xv+CXygW TZPH6QznR6wqL5J+q9XECrdAIElnurwGVgeDpODteNuJ2uCahQehY7BQPSqtmuTT CjZtepdSzIwv0aw+5oFynMxmdm0K+MKm3wFKY/ug+3BrqtfsbFQs173E5V5ah1mN 5yfjnrWKv6YAqA== X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: /g4KWUZBvQwqNDgRxoDUGjukx0mHT+Yjw447xmeHg5q9 1504517517 Received: from [10.50.6.46] (unknown [87.213.224.178]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B80E524A82 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2017 05:31:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Sijmen J. Mulder" Subject: Re: Help Wanted - Work with MSFT and help finish the port of .NET Core to FreeBSD To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <8bf8731c-65e8-fc43-4bfc-658b269067c3@rawbw.com> Message-ID: <5ce85089-16ed-d7fb-d862-50761bedf83c@sjmulder.nl> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 11:33:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8bf8731c-65e8-fc43-4bfc-658b269067c3@rawbw.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 09:32:18 -0000 Hi, (Please excuse email formatting issues. I haven't set up a proper client yet.) Op 4-9-2017 om 04:15 schreef Yuri: > Is there a body of software that requires .Net? I never came across anything great that needed .Net to run. > > In other words, why is this needed and who is going to use it? .NET Core is mostly used as a server software platform, mostly web APIs and the like. At this point it's unlikely you would encounter this in regular end user software. I have the impression that it's especially popular with for microservices - for the .NET crowd, that is. I'm going to have a look to see if there's anything I can do. Sijmen