[MonoDevelop] preferred OS for monodevelop

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To be fair, I think the "build from scratch" of MonoDevelop is
comparatively simple for the size of the app. I've built both MD and
Banshee on my openSUSE box while making changes to them and MonoDevelop
has far fewer dependencies and was much easier to get going! After that,
it is basically just "git pull && ./configure && make && sudo make
install" each time you want to update.

openSUSE also has good Mono support in the openSUSE Build Service (as
someone else mentioned). They've not caught up with MonoDevelop quite
yet (although the MonoDevelop.com front page does still list 3.0 as the
latest!), but the Mono:Factory repository normally has an up-to-date
version of Mono and the latest pre-4.0 of MonoDevelop.



On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 21:58 +0100, Mike Krüger wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> Depends -  in many ways Linux is our best and some ways it's our worst
> platform.
> Let's begin what's not so good:
> 
> 
> - Installation is difficult (you need to set up a built environment) -
> forget the versions from the official sources, they're outdated
> - The Linux eco system is bigger (at least compared to os x) and some
> bugs may occur on untested environments/library combinations. 
> - We're focusing ATM more on OS X and Windows platforms - therefore
> we're beginning to erode on Linux - slowly. For example we don't
> support gtk3 yet or Qt development. (But frankly most of this stuff
> should be created by the .NET community on Linux, which is ... too
> small unfortunately - I think I know all of them from IRC :))
> 
> 
> Now to the things that are really good/better on Linux:
> 
> 
> + We're a gtk program and despite our and Lanedo's efforts to improve
> gtk on other platforms it runs best on Linux. The Linux UI is the
> fastest and most stable out of all platforms.
> + You've less keyboard input problems. The Linux  version is the only
> one where you can type with any layout and language inside
> MonoDevelop. (Depending on what you use it's a big factor)
> + Because you need to built the mono stack from source you've the
> latest versions available and if you report bugs you're getting fixes
> much more earlier than you would by using one of our installers
> (therefore the installation pain is also a gain)
> + MonoDevelop supports theming on Linux - I suspect that it'll break
> with some dark themes - but generally you're more flexible on that
> than on the other platforms
> + Highest coolness factor 'My IDE isn't even in the repositories' - I
> bet you're the only one in your street who can say that :). 
> 
> 
> ... in fact it's more or less equal on all platforms.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Mike
> 
> 
>         What is the preferred OS to use?  Perhaps I’m going in the
>         wrong direction trying to run this on Linux.  Is monodevelop
>         on windows stable?
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>         
>         Thanks,
>         
>         Damian
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