[Mono-dev] List of cleanup candidates for Mono 4.0

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hey,

We want to implement the same .NET Core interface when it becomes available
and to support that scenario.

But until that world exists and all the components are cross platform, we
are just going to be annoying a bunch of people.

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Alexander Köplinger <
alex.koeplinger at outlook.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I think having something in-box with Mono just for convenience makes
> less sense these days given that we have NuGet.
> I'd actually advocate removing everything from the Mono distribution that
> does not also ship with the .NET BCL (except maybe things like Mono.Simd
> which requires specific runtime features).
> The world is moving towards a more modular approach and (just like .NET
> Core) we should leverage NuGet where we can.
>
> -- Alex
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 15:50:05 +0000
> From: monodanmorg at yahoo.com
> To: monoforum at my2cents.co.uk; alex.koeplinger at outlook.com
> CC: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] List of cleanup candidates for Mono 4.0
>
> I agree with removing Npgsql from Mono.  Or either convince someone to
> commit the latest version of Npgsql to mono.  It would have to build with
> mono's build system though.  Francisco?
>
> The main reason it was included in mono was so you could have an
> out-of-the-box experience with mono connecting to Postgres.
>
>
>   On Thursday, November 27, 2014 6:07 PM, Martin Thwaites <
> monoforum at my2cents.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On 27 November 2014 at 18:19, Alexander Köplinger <
> alex.koeplinger at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> * aspnetwebstack (i.e. MVC+WebApi) -> same reasons as for EF, open-source
> and on NuGet, should be used from there
>
>
> I am actually not sure about this one, is that really the case?
>
>
> The latest XamarinStudio/MonoDevelop MVC template installs it from NuGet,
> so I think it should be fine to remove. It might not work perfectly until
> the System.Web from referencesource is integrated, but the same applies to
> the existing (outdated) copy we ship currently.
>
>
>
> This is something I've been working on.  MVC 5.2.2 (the one available on
> NuGet) just doesn't work at the moment due to this pull
> https://github.com/mono/mono/pull/1349 being required (and I haven't had
> chance to fix the things that Miguel wanted).
>
> In addition, the old notes on getting MVC 3 working on mono, said to
> remove the MS supplied versions of the dlls IIRC, so these would stop
> working on upgrade (and replacing with the nuget ones for MVC3 probably
> won't work).
>
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