Hi Miguel, Is there an ETA on merging your "large fork". I don't want to get started on anything that you guys have already done?
Or could you tell us which areas to stay away from for now? Personally, I would want to look at some of the system.web things. Thanks Martin On 15 Nov 2014 03:07, "Miguel de Icaza" <mig...@xamarin.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > Sami reached out to me, and was wondering how to get started in bringing > some code to Mono, in particular WCF to Mono. So I wrote this small guide > for newcomers. > > I would say it takes a couple of steps: > > - Build your own local version of Mono on Linux. > - Make sure it works "mcs" should be able to run after installing it. > - Run a trivial self-hosted WCF server/client > - Make a trivial change to the WCF class library, and install this > version to test you can make changes locally and have them run: > - cd mono/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel > - Make changes > - make install > - Run your test again in another window > - Repeat > - Make sure you can run the test suite: > - cd mono/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel > - make run-test-local > > Once you are ready, you can start importing code. Ideally, you want to > go for high-value targets: the most buggy parts of Mono's stack (you can > check bugzilla for reports on memory usage, bugs). Or you can pick a > missing feature. > > To import code, modify the relevant ".sources" file in the > System.ServiceModel directory (where you ran the test) and replace a local > file, with a reference to the "referencesource". > > Chances are, you will need to make changes to the "referencesource" code, > since a lot of it is Windows specific. > > Miguel > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Sami Ben Grine < > sben-gr...@axarosenberg.com> wrote: > >> Sweet – is there anything I can do to make progress? >> >> >> >> I am somewhat ignorant about Mono but I am pretty ok with .NET and Linux. >> >> >> >> thanks >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list > >
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