From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brett Gilio Subject: Re: Mono and .NET Core Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 12:41:58 -0500 Message-ID: <875zxrnswp.fsf@posteo.net> References: <87r2ghz3t8.fsf@posteo.net> <87in1r4hum.fsf@gnu.org> <96065BAD-4D2B-481A-8629-43E60B68D424@vany.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFNAc-0003A9-Pu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:42:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFNAW-0000S1-3v for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:42:12 -0400 Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:51025) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFNAU-00008m-0M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:42:06 -0400 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5AB9F2400FC for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:42:03 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <96065BAD-4D2B-481A-8629-43E60B68D424@vany.ca> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Adam Van Ymeren Cc: Guix-devel Adam Van Ymeren writes: > I tried to package .NET Core a while ago but didn't produce anything usef= ul. Their GNU/Linux story was rapidly changing at the time. > > .NET Core was a pain to package partly because it bootstraps from a binar= y version of .NET Core similar to Rust. Although it may be possible to boo= tstrap via Mono I didn't try it and it's definitely not an upstream support= ed route ;). > > Personally I ended up with just sticking to Mono for my C# needs as I fou= nd .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 Gui= x. > > On October 24, 2018 10:03:29 PM GMT+09:00, ludo@gnu.org wrote: >>Hello! >> >>Brett Gilio 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=E2=80=99ll probably have the >>privilege to be a pioneer! :-) >> >>Mono was added by janneke (Cc=E2=80=99d), who might have something to add? >> >>Ludo=E2=80=99. >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?