[MonoDevelop] Is monodevelop really Xamarin Studio now?

[Miljenko Cvjetko]

Hi


On 20140711 06:23 , Ryan Moquin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm fairly new to monodevelop and I wanted to download it to try it 
> out.  The easiest way when I went to the site, seemed to be the 
> windows installer.  Go figure, the windows installer is the Xamarin 
> Studio installer.  So does that mean that monodevelop is now really 
> Xamarin?  The website talks about it like they are different, so it 
> feels like monodevelop is basically just trying to disguise what it's 
> basically becoming.  I want to figure out the best options for 
> building what I want mobilewise, but it seems like hopping to the .net 
> side is as usual always requiring money out of your pocket to do things.
>
> I just want to be clear since Xamarin isn't free but monodevelop 
> claims to be opensource ...so it's just a little confusing.
>
public partial class MonoDevelop : IDE
{
     public virtual void Init()
     {
         this.OpenSource = true;
     }
}
public partial class XamarinStudio : MonoDevelop
{
     XamarinAndroid xa = new XamarinAndroid();
     XamariniOS xi = new XamariniOS();
     XamarinMac xm = new XamarinMac();

     public override void Init()
     {
         xa.Free = (license == Licences.Starter) true : false;
         xi.Free = (license == Licences.Starter) true : false;
         xm.Free = (license == Licences.Starter) true : false;
     }
}

Xamarin Studio is MonoDevelop with commerical addins which are free if 
user has Starter edition. In MonoDevelop (Xamarin Studio) everything is 
based on AddIns, so XamarinAndroid, XamariniOS, XamarinMac are 
commercial addins.

There is no XamarinStudio on Linux and this might be source of confusion.

Regarding "requiring money out of your pocket to do things"... OK. Do 
your customers/clients pay You or do You really work for free?
In order to develop the tools everybody needs resources (time and/or 
money), so all of the Xamarin Technology cannot be free

With free parts like MonoDevelop you can do a lot for desktop and web, 
but for mobile You'll need licences.

cheers

Mel



> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
>
>
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