[Mono-dev] Mono and ASP.NET vNext

[Miguel de Icaza]

Fabulous!

Does this one run on Unix?


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Marcelo Zabani <mzabani at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow! This is such great news!!
>
> As for running Owin applications with Unix HTTP servers, I've developed
> Fos <http://github.com/mzabani/Fos> on a very permissive license and a
> focus on good documentation and running with Mono on *nix. I would very
> much love getting contributions on this, because my spare time is running
> lower these days.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Marcelo.
>
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello guys!
>>
>> Microsoft has open sourced ASP.NET vNext:
>>
>> http://github.com/aspnet/home
>>
>> This is an entire new web stack that only needs the core of Mono (does
>> not even use System.Web.dll!).
>>
>> So these are of course great news, because (a) The core Mono has been in
>> active development, and (b) that means that Mono's on the server can be
>> used without all those pesky limitations that have been plaguing us for
>> years.
>>
>> So we ran into a couple of limitations in Mono: some classes that they
>> need are not implemented (I filed a bug, and a couple of Xamarin folks
>> decided to take on that on their copious spare time) and we have a couple
>> of bugs on FileSystemWatcher on OSX.
>>
>> But this is a great time to:
>>
>>    - Get involved with the github.com/aspnet project and submit
>>    contributions that will make the software run on Unix.
>>
>>    - Look into technologies like Owin and Katana (sp?) and help us have
>>    a story that plugs into Unix HTTP servers (the equivalent of our bridge
>>    between Apache and mono: mod_mono, or our Fast CGI bridge to mono).
>>
>>    - Take Mono's new profiling tools and performance counters for a spin
>>    and help us fine tune the runtime to run .NET code faster on Unix than you
>>    can on Windows.  While this is a tall order, my friend David Miller would
>>    expect nothing less from us.
>>
>> Hugs and love,
>> Miguel
>>
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