Any Mono Developers on this list?

[D. Bahi]

Darrell Michaud wrote:
> I've actually been impressed at how stable and featured it is, in the
> limited window where I have interacted with it. I ported a C# app which
> needed to use a specific .net DLL library to ironpython on mono, and it
> went smoothly with no platform issues. I used standard text editors and
> occasionally Eclipse as a dev environment, on a Fedora distribution.

I'm a mono newbie and have only tinkered with mono and C# but have been
wildly impressed (easy to do perhaps) with monodevelop.

> From
> what I understand quite a few gnome apps are written in mono now.

you can see many of the applications developed with mono
(with an opensuse login) hosted on the open build service project site:

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Mono:Community

the core mono components are here:

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Mono

and if you do need winforms you may be interested in work here

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Mono:UIA and/or here
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Mono:UIA:Bleeding

Note that all of these were found thru the this search service and the
repositories are avail for install and updates _with_no_need_ of a build
service login.

http://software.opensuse.org/search

> 
> All that aside, I'd consider using Ubuntu or Redhat/fedora as large
> distributions with support, from companies that are doing more for the
> larger ecosystem than SUSE's current owners.

as Novell / SuSE is paying salaries for the lead Mono developers I would
recommend... that you install your favorite distro of choice.

Note however that the URLs above are being built for openSUSE and that
if there are issues you can bet updates will be delivered for that
platform first. (side note openSUSE 11.2 is due out next Thursday...
maybe try the RC2 release?)

there are supported and commumity-supported builds for Windows, Mac OS
X, SuSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Solaris, and Maemo

http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html
http://monodevelop.com/Download

finally, not a plug - don't even know all the details - just pointing
out what's out there for mono -  there is a commercially supported build
from Novell for Mono on SLES.  One of the features they point out is
Windows Visual Studio hosted development for linux targets in case you
already have people that work that way and want to keep them in their
familiar env.

http://www.novell.com/products/mono/techspecs.html

good luck scratching your itch.

db

> 
> Gerry Hull wrote:
>> I'm a .Net guy whose starting to come over to the other side...
>>
>> At work, we need to leverage a lot of C# code on Linux so we are looking
>> at
>> Mono again...
>>
>> It looked to be in sad shape a while ago, but now seems to be picking up
>> steam.
>>
>> A lot of stuff we have are services/daemons. so no UI issues (though I'd
>> like to try some of that for personal use).
>>
>> I tried getting MonoDevelop running on Ubuntu 9.04, but that was a mess...
>>
>> So I'm going to SuSE 11.1... which is "officially" supported, and has
>> packages for Mono and MonoDevelop...
>>
>> I'd like to hear anyone else's user experience with Mono...  (licensing
>> issues aside, please)
>>
>> Gerry

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