[MonoDevelop] preferred OS for monodevelop

[Ian Norton]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:02:30AM +0000, Adam Tauno Williams 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.

I've been trying hard to keep my pmono packages of monodevelop up-to-date,
unfortunately I've broken them a couple of days ago. Stay tuned :)

Ian