Adam Van Ymeren writes:
> I tried to package .NET Core a while ago but didn't produce anything useful. > Their GNU/Linux story was rapidly changing at the time. > > .NET Core was a pain to package partly because it bootstraps from a binary > version of .NET Core similar to Rust. Although it may be possible to > bootstrap via Mono I didn't try it and it's definitely not an upstream > supported route ;). > > Personally I ended up with just sticking to Mono for my C# needs as I found > .NET Core didn't integrate as nicely into the GNU/Linux ecosystem. > > That being said it would certainly be nice to have packages for it in Guix. > > On October 24, 2018 10:03:29 PM GMT+09:00, l...@gnu.org wrote: >>Hello! >> >>Brett Gilio <bre...@posteo.net> skribis: >> >>> Two questions here. >>> >>> 1) Has anybody already started taking to try and upgrade Mono to >>latest? >>> If not, I will give it a go. >>> >>> 2) Have we started any packaging on .NET Core, would like to know to >>> prevent redundancy in work. >> >>AFAIK nobody worked in this area yet, so you’ll probably have the >>privilege to be a pioneer! :-) >> >>Mono was added by janneke (Cc’d), who might have something to add? >> >>Ludo’. >From what I see, coreclr https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/ now uses a build.sh script. Is it wise to simply use this in the package definition to build it (I suspect not), or should the build system be configured from scratch?