Brett Gilio writes: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> Hi Brett! >> >> Brett Gilio writes: >> >>> Whew! Somebody finally got to it! I tried many times to get mono in a >>> better shape for Guix, but failed! :) As there are a considerable number >>> of changes here, would you mind giving a short synopsis of what still >>> needs to be made before we either reroll a revision or get a final >>> draft? >> >> What still needs to be made? Beside fixing the tests, the patch I've >> sent seems to have Mono 5 and 6 working. >> >> Final draft of what? Sorry, I feel that I'm missing some context :) >> >> If your question is about the Mono ecosystem, there is a lot of work >> left to do. We need a bootstrapped msbuild (the build tool for Mono), >> and then ideally we would have a mono-build-system. I can detail this >> if you want to, let me know. >> >> Cheers! > > Sorry, I wrote this email last night when I was rather tired. I meant to > say what work still needs to be done on the patch before we commit it. Nothing essential, the patch can be merged as is, I believe. > If our ultimate goal is to get .NET Core (with .NET 5 approaching to > replace .NET Core and .NET Framework, and eventually Mono as well) we > should maybe invest time into a general .NET build system. I'm not sure. Absolutely. The investment is significant ;) Maybe the first step would be to gather a team of volunteers. This is very low priority for me personally (I don't even know C#). Maybe posting about this on the mailing list and other social media could be a good start. Cheers! -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/