maintaining ports and mono

[Russell Haley]

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is somewhat out of date.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.

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 at 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
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