[MonoDevelop] Cross platform build strategy

[Jayme]

Ok now this is starting to make some more sense. I can see the time taken 
switchover being negative, that's why I offered to help with prototyping the 
effort. Assuming the internationalization stuff Todd mentioned could be 
invoked from NAnt though, for the parts of your build process centered 
around compilation of code, execution of tests, and deployment it would 
definately reduce your maintainability because NAnt has alot of pattern 
matching features and for/each like tasks that let you automate calling into 
sub-builds (similar to make) but without having to include every single file 
and run auto* all the time. I guess my thought was that NAnt works on osx, 
linux, and windows today and that people who have used mono or the .NET 
framework on these platforms can install NAnt easier. Hearing that a goal of 
monodevelop is not to run on windows, I can see this probably doesn't 
matter, or make sense.

Having said all that, are there any projects you guys know of (even just 
starting up) that have a mono IDE targeting windows along with linux out 
there? It's really lame IMHO to have to use one IDE in linux, another on 
windows etc. I can see how you guys who don't use Windows don't care but 
there are definately software vendors such as myself who want to allow 
customers to deploy their applications on any mono-supported platform (or at 
least the main "3") and we would like to be able to use one IDE to develop 
and debug on all of these. Mono is perfectly capable of providing the APIs 
out of the shoot to do this, I'm surprised noone's tackled it yet.

-Jayme



On 5/25/05, John Luke <john.luke at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 13:55 -0500, Jayme wrote:
> 
> >
> > You guys have tied newer builds of Monodevelop to linux, which makes
> > no sense whatsoever to me because the whole purpose of mono is
> > portability.
> 
> The 'whole purpose of mono' is not portability. It is (like most things)
> different things to different people. I mean if we (MonoDevelop in this
> case) really wanted to just 'be portable' we could, but we consciously
> chose to take advantage of platform specific features. This is not a bad
> thing.
> 
> The whole rest of this thread I didn't really read because it got off
> track. But what I want to try to make clear is:
> - I (and most of us) am aware of nant
> - I prefer make right now
> - changing to anything else would have to provide _clear_ advantages
> and not make things harder to maintain (the very nature of switching is
> time consuming so it starts out as a negative)
> 
> I personally don't see the point until and if we can switch to something
> somewhat standardized between other similar ides and platforms (which
> currently doesn't exist).
> 
> 
>
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