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

[Miguel de Icaza]

Each one needs to be discussed

Some of the Ms behaviors don't work on Unix, so not only we shouldn't bring
it, we should work towards a better shared set of new Apis

Not sure what you meant in this specific case.

On Saturday, November 15, 2014, Greg Young <gregoryyoung1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What's the plan on where there are differences in behavior? An example of
> this would be uri matching. I would guess it makes sense to use the ms
> stuff moving forward, how will changes in current behavior be communicated
>
> On Saturday, November 15, 2014, 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> 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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