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

[Kornel Pal]

Given these obstacles, I think that going forward with the originally 
announced plan of removing non-4.5 profile support from the current Mono 
code base - without introducing MS code yet - would make the gradual 
adoption of MS code much easer.

On 11/15/2014 2:11 PM, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> It hasn't.   When we do, we will announce.
>
>
> Two issues: we worked with reference source and the github push is 
> only slowly getting the bits.   And the second is that the layout they 
> are pushing is different.
>
> On Saturday, November 15, 2014, Martin Thwaites 
> <monoforum at my2cents.co.uk <mailto:monoforum at my2cents.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     So has it been merged yet?
>
>     I'm going to look at the Buffer stuff I shy'd away from before. 
>     Then look at the MachineKey.Protect stuff to implement the things
>     I missed.
>
>     I've got a separate question around the mismatch in conventions,
>     but I'll ask that on a different thread.
>
>     I'm struggling to contain my excitement at the moment!
>
>     Thanks,
>     Martin
>
>     On 15 November 2014 13:03, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com
>     <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','miguel at xamarin.com');>> wrote:
>
>         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 <http://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
>         <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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> 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:
>                       o cd mono/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel
>                       o Make changes
>                       o make install
>                       o Run your test again in another window
>                       o Repeat
>                   * Make sure you can run the test suite:
>                       o cd mono/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel
>                       o 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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