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>
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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 is somewhat out of date.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"
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