Re: [developer] dotnet on illumos?

["Till Wegmüller" <toasterson@gmail.com>]

According to the mono projects history project they kind of halfway 
merged. https://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/dotnet-integration/

But dotnet-core is a separate project from mono.

On 12.06.24 20:22, Jason King wrote:
> Looking at github, https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/tree/main/src/mono 
> <https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/tree/main/src/mono> suggests the 
> runtime is mono at least for non-Windows systems (but maybe a different 
> branch / copy of the runtime or just copied into the repo from elsewhere 
> as a sort of monorepo?)
> 
> *From: *Till Wegmüller <toasterson@gmail.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at 12:59 PM
> *To: *developer@lists.illumos.org <developer@lists.illumos.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [developer] dotnet on illumos?
> 
> On 12.06.24 19:01, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
>> * On 2024-06-12 at 17:49 BST, Till Wegmüller wrote:
>> 
>>> Thats all I remember. Maybe others remember more?
>> 
>> Older pkgsrc branches have mono 4.x, for example:
>> 
>>    
>> https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/packages/SmartOS/2020Q4/x86_64/All/mono-4.0.4.1nb23.tgz <https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/packages/SmartOS/2020Q4/x86_64/All/mono-4.0.4.1nb23.tgz>
>> 
>> which as far as I'm aware worked ok, however I assume this only useful 
>> for older .Net software?
> 
> Not just older, You need to be straight up ancient for mono runtime. I
> had to switch a server to linux 7 years ago, due to us missing dotnet
> core support.
> 
>> 
>> We always attempt to build the latest version of lang/mono, but it 
>> obviously fails:
>> 
>>    
>> https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/pkgsrc/public/reports/upstream-trunk/20240611.2249/mono-6.12.0.199nb1/build.log <https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/pkgsrc/public/reports/upstream-trunk/20240611.2249/mono-6.12.0.199nb1/build.log>
> 
> It seems that it's a seperate runtime from dotnet core. And mono having
> limited support for ASP.NET seems like a bad thing. dotnet core it the
> default runtime and OSS. My vote would be on the dotnet runtime and not
> mono. At my current Job all dotnet apps use dotnet core. Mono is not
> used at all for a long time.
> 
> 
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