[Mono-dev] Crash course on bringing .NET open sourced code to Mono.

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

We worked only on System.Configuration, regex, the crypto and web stack.

The rest you can do, including the web stack.

I took a look at asp.net.   I think in the long term we want to replace
most of it, but it needs to be done in stages, as it still contains a bunch
of native stuff.m



Miguel

On Saturday, November 15, 2014, Martin Thwaites <monoforum at my2cents.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Miguel,
>
> Is there an ETA on merging your "large fork".  I don't want to get started
> on anything that you guys have already done?
>
> Or could you tell us which areas to stay away from for now?  Personally, I
> would want to look at some of the system.web things.
>
> Thanks
> Martin
> On 15 Nov 2014 03:07, "Miguel de Icaza" <miguel at xamarin.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','miguel at xamarin.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> Sami reached out to me, and was wondering how to get started in bringing
>> some code to Mono, in particular WCF to Mono.   So I wrote this small guide
>> for newcomers.
>>
>> I would say it takes a couple of steps:
>>
>>    - Build your own local version of Mono on Linux.
>>    - Make sure it works "mcs" should be able to run after installing it.
>>    - Run a trivial self-hosted WCF server/client
>>    - Make a trivial change to the WCF class library, and install this
>>    version to test you can make changes locally and have them run:
>>       - cd mono/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel
>>       - Make changes
>>       - make install
>>       - Run your test again in another window
>>       - Repeat
>>    - Make sure you can run the test suite:
>>       - cd mono/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel
>>       - make run-test-local
>>
>> Once you are ready, you can start importing code.   Ideally, you want to
>> go for high-value targets: the most buggy parts of Mono's stack (you can
>> check bugzilla for reports on memory usage, bugs).   Or you can pick a
>> missing feature.
>>
>> To import code, modify the relevant ".sources" file in the
>> System.ServiceModel directory (where you ran the test) and replace a local
>> file, with a reference to the "referencesource".
>>
>> Chances are, you will need to make changes to the "referencesource" code,
>> since a lot of it is Windows specific.
>>
>> Miguel
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Sami Ben Grine <
>> SBen-Grine at axarosenberg.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','SBen-Grine at axarosenberg.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>>  Sweet – is there anything I can do to make progress?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am somewhat ignorant about Mono but I am pretty ok with .NET and Linux.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
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