Well said. Every time I ask I get a response along the lines of "oh you just run make" along with an anecdote about a script error or required package which gives about 20% of the required info.
A script which is guaranteed to build on Linux, Windows VS2010 and VS2012 (lots of devs haven't upgraded) and possibly on Mac too would enable all the little guys to quickly fix trivial bugs. When I spent a week trying to get it to compile, to fix my one line bug, I gave up. I want to contribute but I only have time to do that and not to mend a build system I don't understand. Bryan Crotaz Silver Curve > On 19 Mar 2014, at 08:45, David Schmitt <da...@dasz.at> wrote: > >> On 2014-03-19 01:55, Greg Young wrote: >> Just off the top of my head... maybe a summer of code would be better >> spent on these kinds of issues and improving the throughput of >> donations as opposed to the next interesting technical topic. > > +1. > > The complexities (no obvious build files, no csproj, no visible documentation > (e.g. pointed to via README), numerous warnings on default compiles) in > building mcs and running tests has also kept me from contributing except in > the most trivial ways. > > > Regards, David > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list