[MonoDevelop] Cross platform build strategy

[Joshua Tauberer]

Jayme wrote:
> If your argument is to code on linux and deploy anywhere that makes no 
> sense because I can a) build code with VS.NET <http://VS.NET> today on 
> windows and run it anywhere and b) build code with SharpDevelop today on 
> windows and run it anywhere.

All the more reason why MonoDevelop needs to run on Linux for sure, and 
is not quite so urgent for Windows. :)

(When I last looked at Nant, I was trying to compile NDoc under Linux. 
Suffice it to say, for the life of me I could not get it to compile.)

> how resistant developers on the team are to trying to improve the 
> current build/release process.

I think we (royal we) need to be more appreciative of what the team is 
doing.  They're a finite number of people with a finite amount of time, 
and if they'd rather be spending their time now on making MD actually 
work better rather than tweaking the build process, I think that's a 
pretty reasonable choice.

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