From owner-freebsd-mono@freebsd.org Thu Jun 16 18:10:06 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mono@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 B3508A77500 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:10:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from russ.haley@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vk0-x232.google.com (mail-vk0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c05::232]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6C3181F7A; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:10:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from russ.haley@gmail.com) Received: by mail-vk0-x232.google.com with SMTP id j2so84476970vkg.2; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:10:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=E0DH2Vjoi6v9TnbwxMF5Ui+LfECb5r0QBwLcGlYlAtg=; b=coWXmb0zF2B4SorAvRArN9UCEvhsM+UBI+RrMxVnNUOYz2sDcgjWTGHRBhnhCgPXUy ruCwhZlIfXij6ZkA3g8bif5P1XzAN9hGBauFJikITQvjjK4cbmBjW6XGhk5zkLlrUKzp 2cFTt4oI/a5JAZCy2P5xKlayT/JC2BxyyJvG0BFe+AvQ7X5vklhGm1YFRxQc/oCR8d+T Ndrny4/n0oIqgfo6zIkDbPkqhZeSI/w5IePCk/JdwiXdiorbvi1xyG9m4Pl0OVh/xoyg No2Xd/Un/Kr3NGKwViaHzEywXXhfBxiInhVuCjlyEP50cBRtOIBS+2nbK7vnwbJUUbBj ESzA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=E0DH2Vjoi6v9TnbwxMF5Ui+LfECb5r0QBwLcGlYlAtg=; b=DMV6OYR8HjlB3x2HHH+7Lq2eYaMjHcTSLCs21guMWaZCIT3nD3RGqKhML4unn056UC Sug2ENGBHzuCEJELsxf6HMi+TDWIO140DYoSi/6LGH4nzl1FpmcnXryaMZyf/V8CriDc LvOBYYdRltspfz8mz21zU1bjTteMmNRLtizgf5DvNt1HFWqb6PpBstw9LVR0Da9dpOnk 4xjGT15BzT59Er0y45xkZkCYyNTTLijRaSBilJ7aor3lhBMwWw46/umCkQrsx5pOtXLH DmWW6PtjbC1BB+1N15tCXmuhVazC/5eSDKdd8w/tsy6Wjcb2sZanSotmfN9mf5hLwg/b ePEA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tJvSswc19s+KVwkxk/yRAzepTW+Kcpo0l7PcsgOqk+/Vo4H27D9+zH+MgLjlQx2q0e+iA1Ly4rt71mNgg== X-Received: by 10.31.166.72 with SMTP id p69mr2777944vke.14.1466100605602; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:10:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.31.54.196 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:10:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Russell Haley Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:10:05 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: maintaining ports and mono To: Mathieu Prevot Cc: romain@freebsd.org, Freebsd-mono , Ivan Radovanovic Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mono@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Mono and C# applications on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:10:06 -0000 On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Russell Haley 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 > 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"