[MonoDevelop] preferred OS for monodevelop

Daniel Hughes trampster at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 03:12:05 UTC 2013


By the way I use MonoDevelop on ubuntu, the debian-cli team does a
great job of the packaging there.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Daniel Hughes <trampster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I use monodevelop on linux for my widemargin development (every day),
> over each release MonoDevelop there has gotten better and better, In
> some ways it's ahead of VS2012.
>
> I have not had Adam's experience and have found the reverse to be true.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel Hughes
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 20:40 +0000, IBBoard wrote:
>>> It depends what you're trying to do.
>>> Originally, MonoDevelop was written for Linux, because the guys worked
>>> for Ximian and then Novell and were bringing .Net to Linux. Then
>>> everyone got shiny new Macs and lots of the developers jumped over to OS
>>> X, leading to an improved MD on Mac being released. Windows also works,
>>> but there it is competing against SharpDevelop and (of course) Visual
>>> Studio.
>>
>> +1.
>>
>> BTW, I used Monodevelop for GUI .NET develop on LINUX for years.  It was
>> a really great package, and an excellent interface.  It was generally
>> very stable - a couple twitchy versions here and there.
>>
>> Then the updates slowed to a trickle, nobody paid attention to
>> packaging, and it became [very sadly] clear that Mono and the luminaries
>> of that community have 'moved on' from Open solutions.  So I moved on as
>> well;  very happily still developing on LINUX with excellent tools, just
>> not Mono / Monodevelop any longer.
>>
>>> If you want to do Android or iOS development then you need Windows (with
>>> a Mac for the iOS build) or Mac (I believe it does Android as well).
>>> Unfortunately, Linux has now become the poor sibling and doesn't get all
>>> the shiny toys.
>>
>> ... assuming you want to do Android development in .NET.  There is
>> always Java, Python, etc...  which work perfect well.
>>
>>> Personally, I develop my library code, library tests and GTK# interface
>>> on Linux and my WinForms interface in Windows using VS.Net Express.
>>
>> Yes.  The Gtk# designer and support in Monodevelop is bar none, one of
>> the nicest GUI design tools I've used.
>>
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