Re: Mono and .NET Core

[Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>]

Adam Van Ymeren writes:

> I tried to package .NET Core a while ago but didn't produce anything useful.  Their GNU/Linux story was rapidly changing at the time.
>
> .NET Core was a pain to package partly because it bootstraps from a binary version of .NET Core similar to Rust.  Although it may be possible to bootstrap via Mono I didn't try it and it's definitely not an upstream supported route ;).
>
> Personally I ended up with just sticking to Mono for my C# needs as I found .NET Core didn't integrate as nicely into the GNU/Linux ecosystem.
>
> That being said it would certainly be nice to have packages for it in Guix.
>
> On October 24, 2018 10:03:29 PM GMT+09:00, ludo@gnu.org wrote:
>>Hello!
>>
>>Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net> skribis:
>>
>>> Two questions here.
>>>
>>> 1) Has anybody already started taking to try and upgrade Mono to
>>latest?
>>> If not, I will give it a go.
>>>
>>> 2) Have we started any packaging on .NET Core, would like to know to
>>> prevent redundancy in work.
>>
>>AFAIK nobody worked in this area yet, so you’ll probably have the
>>privilege to be a pioneer!  :-)
>>
>>Mono was added by janneke (Cc’d), who might have something to add?
>>
>>Ludo’.


From what I see, coreclr https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/ now uses a
build.sh script. Is it wise to simply use this in the package definition
to build it (I suspect not), or should the build system be configured
from scratch?