Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:05:25 -0800 From: Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> To: Freebsd-mono <freebsd-mono@freebsd.org>, David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> Cc: Tomas Weinfurt <Tomas.Weinfurt@microsoft.com> Subject: Assisting the Mono and DotNet Porting Process Message-ID: <CABx9NuSK5kOy4aNyYLCVznGMAH8k%2BxyD-JM8LyyshxeviSuKMA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Guys, So I've managed to talk myself into a job at a medical devices firm and I signed a new contract on Wednesday. The first project I'm on is based on qt 5 which is problematic because I know very little about qt! As you can imagine, I'm going to need to ramp up "starting yesterday" so I'm not going to have time for mono or dotnet core for a little while. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what a little while means. I'd really encourage some of you that are using mono and not active in the porting process to consider helping David Naylor. Without people to pull in the patches and test them, it means more overhead for him because he needs to request many exp-runs to clean up errors. The amount of effort to actually apply the patches and build the software is not that onerous and the learning experience really highlights how Runtimes and VMs work. At this point, FreeBSD is inches away from being able to build DotNet Core 2 entirely on FreeBSD. The push to get things working is measurable in weeks of effort by my estimation. Tomas from Microsoft has things building and ready for testing, while David Naylor is only missing a few more components to support DotNet Core 1 via Linux emulation. *It's soooooo close*. Anyway, I'd be happy to provide a little guidance as to what I was doing to assist David if anyone is interested. I'm sad about putting in so much effort over the last few months and having to walk away before the job is complete. I'd love to see Mono and DotNet "pushed over the line" and will be back to help when time permits. Cheers, Russ
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