Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:10:05 -0700
From:      Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com>
To:        Mathieu Prevot <mathieu.prevot@gmail.com>
Cc:        romain@freebsd.org, Freebsd-mono <freebsd-mono@freebsd.org>,  Ivan Radovanovic <radovanovic@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: maintaining ports and mono
Message-ID:  <CABx9NuRJCnEAw8xo9bt4c9729ZZFRKkeC3BSF2-pBjgwOPk2NA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABx9NuTr0UqTUKe8_yY45F0eHhhNhE8xarqGcvbukxSU5ETMCg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CAP8Xrcs7DTM-y2QqZY3sTRX2GzRKpOGOSHK%2BZXTkY09Txq6YoQ@mail.gmail.com> <CABx9NuTr0UqTUKe8_yY45F0eHhhNhE8xarqGcvbukxSU5ETMCg@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> I have expressed interest in helping maintain mono on FreeBSD but have
> moved away due to lack of interest and support. Currently someone has
> ported more recent versions of Mono (Romain I think?), but MonoDevelop
> is somewhat out of date. I had patches to build MonoDevelop with
> Rolsyn but couldn't get the MonoDevelop github repos to work with
> FreeBSD ports so I gave up after multiple requests for help on both
> this mailing list and the FreeBSD forum.

NOTE: The issue was with FreeBSD ports not allowing me to use multiple
repositories with specific tags or commits. It had nothing to do with
building MD.

> Other .Net things I'd like to see:
> - Ivan had some patches for kqueue issues, he passed them on to me but
> again, I have moved away from .net on FreeBSD
> - I would like to see a port of Pinta on FreeBSD
> (https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/) because gimp makes me
> want to throw my computer
> - I once built and ran .Net Core and would like to see if that has
> progressed, perhaps put together a FreeBSD port for it. The ultimate
> goal in my mind is to update MonoDevelop to use .net Core
> - Porting and testing asp.net and MVC to FreeBSD
> - Testing the latest mono on FreeBSD CURRENT for ARM
>
> I had also at one point seen a possible business model helping clients
> get their .net software off of Windows to save $$$ and create
> resalable appliances, but that idea died on the vine.
>
> Ultimately, there are so many development options on FreeBSD, I moved
> to something that was better supported (lua), but I really really miss
> that big beautiful framework. I guess there's always Java, or Python,
> or Ruby... :(
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Russ
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Mathieu Prevot
> <mathieu.prevot@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to have an update about the community working on mono, and
>> maintaining the mono ports.
>>
>> This page was updated last in 2010:
>> http://www.mono-project.com/archived/monofreebsd/
>>
>> I was reading the last 10 month archives, it seems not very active.
>>
>> Who is interesting by running mono / roslyn / c# on FreeBSD ?
>> Who is doing c# development on any platform ?
>> What are you platforms ? (dev and execution) ? What is your fields of
>> activity ?
>> Who might be interested by c# development / execution on FreeBSD?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Mathieu
>> _______________________________________________
>> freebsd-mono@freebsd.org mailing list
>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mono
>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mono-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CABx9NuRJCnEAw8xo9bt4c9729ZZFRKkeC3BSF2-pBjgwOPk2NA>