[Mono-dev] Still seeking contractor to adding Tizen support to Mono

Thu Jun 12 17:03:17 UTC 2014

Hi Bob,

I hope you succeed either way, on finding a contractor or doing it
yourself, but in truth I'm not sure how much 'porting' you need to do, as
Tizen is just a broad target as Android and Linux are too. Do you need to
port it to some specific CPU/SOC? Tizen lacks some basic dependency Mono
can't leave without? (From the top of my mind, besides the tooling:
autotool, gcc, etc..., Mono needs threading, normally pthreads, and a
recent libc which should be in synch with gcc, so it is minimal stuff)

Recently I've built Mono from head on Raspberry Pi, and it was quite easy,
although it was very slow (a full day to build/install).
Probably all you'll need is to guarantee you have the tooling right and
adjust the autoconf scripts to recognize Tizen.

Good luck, :)

Rafael Teixeira
O..:.)oooo

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Bob Summerwill <bob at summerwill.net> wrote:

>
> PS.   If nobody comes forward I WILL just do the work myself.   I've been
> doing professional C++ in the games industry for 18 years and am entirely
> capable.
>
> I am just very time-limited personally,  and have never built Mono
> myself,  let alone done a port,  so it's going to be a rather slow
> process.   I would rather pay an expert to do it quickly,  so I can get on
> to the more interesting phases of the project.
>
> I would have hoped that somebody in this group would have been interested
> in porting the Mono Runtime to a true Linux mobile platform, in the open,
> and getting paid for their effort into the bargain?
>
> I guess I thought wrong :-(
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
> On Jun 12, 2014 9:09 AM, "Bob Summerwill" <bob at summerwill.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> (reply,  rather than reply-all in error 2 days ago)
>>
>> Hey Edward,
>>
>> Thanks for making me smile at the start of the day!
>>
>> I'm not as naive as you may think.   I know Miguel and Nat personally,
>> having met them at Xamarin Evolve last year and been in contact
>> periodically ever since.    I've been asking them about Tizen support for
>> the last year, but it just isn't a big enough market for them to bother
>> with YET.    I attended the Tizen Developer Conference last week, and now
>> have contacts in Samsung and Intel too.     I also have contacts in
>> Unity3D, having just ended at 15+ year spell at EA.
>>
>> If you read my TizenExperts posting you will get a better idea of what
>> I'm looking to build.
>> http://www.tizenexperts.com/2014/05/introduction-monotizen/
>>
>> I'm seeking a contractor PURELY to port the runtime.    It already works
>> on Linux, and I know that there are already multiple working private ports
>> to Tizen.  I don't think it's right to keep for Mono Runtime on Tizen to be
>> commercial.
>>
>> I'm not trying to build a full Xamarin.Tizen stack, including UI
>> designers, etc.    That indeed would be a fool's errand.
>>
>> Phase 1 - Mono Runtime (seeking contractor, or I will do it myself worse
>> case)
>>
>> Phase 2 - Bind Tizen C++ APIs using CppSharp (I have a contractor already
>> lined up)
>>
>> Phase 3 - Very minimal MonoDevelop plugin (just build, run, debug) based
>> on existing MeeGo plugin
>>
>> This humbler project is not an Ark.   It's actually pretty simple, and it
>> is utterly complementary to Xamarin's business.   I shook Nat's hand last
>> Tuesday as I gave him on a MonoTizen card in Xamarin's SF offices.    I
>> spent two hours having lunch with J.Frederick.     I'm not trying to screw
>> Xamarin or directly compete with them.    Just to starting bringing Mono
>> (open source) into Tizen world.
>>
>> Best wishes!
>>
>> BTW...  The "must not work for Xamarin"  should really have been...
>> "must not work for Xamarin,  Microsoft,  Unity,  Samsung or Intel".
>> Porting the Mono Runtime to Tizen is a community project.
>>
>> The benefit of this first phase (with no commercial extras)  is that it
>> enables any developer in the world to build C# applications on Tizen.   A
>> huge win for us all.   You'll need to write P/Invoke calls to any native
>> code and won't have a Tizen-specific support in MonoDevelop,  but it will
>> kick the answer out of HTML5 development for Tizen,  and will open things
>> up for the huge number of app developers who will recoil in horror when
>> they realize the complexity of C++ native development on Tizen.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bob
>> On Jun 10, 2014 4:56 AM, "Edward Ned Harvey (mono)" <
>> edward.harvey.mono at clevertrove.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > From: mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com [mailto:
>>> mono-devel-list-
>>> > bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Bob Summerwill
>>> >
>>> > I want to PAY SOMEBODY to port the Mono Runtime to Tizen.     Could
>>> that
>>> > person be YOU?    If so, please contact me.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> >     .    Must not be employed by Xamarin.
>>>
>>> Good luck.  You might as well be asking a single human to build an ark,
>>> or the Titanic.
>>>
>>> Xamarin is a whole *company* full of people to make mono run on iOS and
>>> Android primarily (and Mac too, as a 2nd class citizen.)
>>>
>>> The fact that tizen is linux-based is irrelevant.  So is Android.
>>>
>>> Personally I think the best bet is to come up with an attractive
>>> business model and form a business relationship to expand Xamarin's product
>>> offering to include Xamarin.Tizen.  Come up with some investment capital,
>>> identify a business plan that leverages existing resources where possible
>>> and increases where necessary...
>>>
>>> As I said...  Good luck...
>>>
>>
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