There is now a tarball available for MonoDevelop 6.0. This bug should contain the issues that still need to be worked out to package MonoDevelop 6 for Fedora Rawhide. The source of the spec file and the patches is currently maintained at https://github.com/tpokorra/lbs-mono-fedora/tree/ALPHA/monodevelop
MonoDevelop has an addin for NUnit2 and NUnit3 runners. We need to decide if we upgrade the nunit package in Fedora from NUnit2 to NUnit3, or if we add a new package nunit3. For the moment, I have disabled nunit3 in my working copy of the MonoDevelop6 spec file.
There is an adding RefactoringEssentials which requires the PCL reference assemblies (see also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35245840/build-monodevelop-on-debian-jessie-using-mono-4-3-3). We cannot use reference assemblies in Fedora, so I suggest we drop that addin, as I have done in my working copy of the MonoDevelop spec file.
Another missing assemblies is System.Collections.Immutable It is used by src/core/MonoDevelop.Core/MonoDevelop.Core.csproj It comes with the tarball, but we drop precompiled assemblies for Fedora. So we probably need to create a new package for System.Collections.Immutable.
(In reply to Timotheus Pokorra from comment #1) > MonoDevelop has an addin for NUnit2 and NUnit3 runners. > We need to decide if we upgrade the nunit package in Fedora from NUnit2 to > NUnit3, or if we add a new package nunit3. > For the moment, I have disabled nunit3 in my working copy of the > MonoDevelop6 spec file. In my opinion the best is update nunit to v3 and if necessary add a new package nunit2 for compatibility
another added dependancy is fsharp. but perhaps we can patch that out.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle. Changing version to '25'.
Another issue is the assembly external\roslyn\Binaries\Release\Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.dll used in src/core/MonoDevelop.Core/MonoDevelop.Core.csproj we need to compile that from source somehow. https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.CodeAnalysis/ https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/master/src/Compilers/Core/Portable/CodeAnalysis.csproj Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
current status: initial work for package mono-immutablecollections which packages System.Collections.Immutable from https://github.com/mono/ImmutableCollections: https://github.com/tpokorra/lbs-mono-fedora/tree/master/mono-immutablecollections removed references to FSharp and RefactoringEssentials: https://github.com/tpokorra/lbs-mono-fedora/blob/master/monodevelop/monodevelop.spec I have upgraded NUnit to version 3 in Rawhide.
curious question: why are you packaging ImmutableCollections from mono: * https://github.com/mono/ImmutableCollections and not the one from .NET: * https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/tree/master/src/System.Collections.Immutable * https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Collections.Immutable ?
@Ondra: it is a good question. I am not sure yet. I actually don't know if there are technical limitations of packages targetted for .NET core, if they can be used with Mono?
let's ask Monodevelop developers: https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43322
hi, there is news about the release?
I have done some work on this in September 2016, but not since then. so the current status is as described on my blog: * I am building my own tarball at https://lbs.solidcharity.com/package/tpokorra/mono/monodevelop-tarball. It is currently probably too big, but I download all referenced packages from nuget and include them in the tarball. * I have made some progress building MonoDevelop 6 for Fedora. At the moment, I have disabled FSharp (cannot build it with xbuild IIRC), and code analysis as well, due to missing .NET portable reference assemblies (they are trying to open source them: http://lists.dot.net/pipermail/monodevelop-list/2016-November/016519.html). this is my current copr for MonoDevelop 6: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/tpokorra/monodevelop-alpha/ If you have a chance to test it, please let me know if that would work for you. Still it would be a lot of work to get this into Fedora properly, because we cannot just use packages from nuget.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle. Changing version to '26'.
"Support for C/C++ was removed in MonoDevelop 6.0 since it did not work." https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/76210/c-c-project-templates-missing-from-xamarin-studio https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/commit/792f48882e650ac76cde4107211e644845895d6a And the latest stable version of MonoDevelop is 7.1.5.2. https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/releases/tag/monodevelop-7.1.5.2 https://releases.xamarin.com/stable-release-15-3-5-with-xcode-9-support/ But the latest stable version that supports C/C++ is 5.10.3.51. https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/releases/tag/monodevelop-5.10.3.51 https://releases.xamarin.com/stable-release-cycle-6-service-release-3/ I think Fedora should upgrade MonoDevelop to 5.10.3.51, and add 7.1.5.2 (keep two versions, monodevelop5 and monodevelop7).
Unfortunately, there is no tarball available for MonoDevelop 5.10.3.51. http://download.mono-project.com/sources/monodevelop/ I have now asked upstream. Regarding C/C++ development with MonoDevelop: are you actually using that? does it work?
https://web.archive.org/web/20160128214821/http://www.monodevelop.com/download/ MonoDevelop download page archived on 2016.01.28 shows 5.10.1.6. Can you find it in http://download.mono-project.com/sources/monodevelop/? Why the tarballs must in http://download.mono-project.com/sources/monodevelop/? Who tell you? I can not understand your strange logic. https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/archive/monodevelop-5.10.3.51.tar.gz https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/archive/monodevelop-7.1.5.2.tar.gz MonoDevelop 5 supports C/C++. But MonoDevelop 6 and MonoDevelop 7 are not.
It seems that I talked about an old story. Okay, just talk about current. http://www.monodevelop.com/download/ Current MonoDevelop download page shows 6.1.2.44. Can you find it in http://download.mono-project.com/sources/monodevelop/? But I can find it in GitHub: https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/archive/monodevelop-6.1.2.44.tar.gz
The issue is that the tarball on Github is just a snapshot of the source code at that point in time. It does not include submodules referenced through git etc. So the tarball from Github would not be sufficient for packaging MonoDevelop. The other issue is, starting with MonoDevelop 6, Xamarin has given up building RPM packages, and are now only delivering MonoDevelop as a Flatpak. The additional challenge for Fedora is, that we don't just want to include binaries from upstream or Nuget, but build everything from source. This makes it very difficult to build MonoDevelop 6 or 7, as you can see from the comments above in this bug report. I am sort of waiting for things to move forward on the dotnet core front in Fedora, and to have msbuild available on Fedora. Then it might be possible, but still a lot of work, to build the nuget packages in Fedora. A first step was to build MonoDevelop 6 in a copr. I did that in February 2017, but I did not get any feedback. Do you think I should build MonoDevelop 7 in that copr? Would you help with testing?
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/monodevelop
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Git_Submodules
It is still a huge task. I don't have the time right now. Any volunteers?
Here is what I currently got. I chose monodevelop 7.1.0.1291 because the flatpak on http://www.monodevelop.com/download/ has that version. dnf install which git autoconf automake mono-devel mono-winfx # for nuget, downloading packages cert-sync /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt # looking at https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/fsharp git clone https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp cd fsharp git checkout tags/4.1.18 -b fsharp-4.1.18 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr make # make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install make install # looking at https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/monodevelop dnf install intltool gnome-sharp-devel monodoc-devel cmake libssh2-devel # flatpak hat Version: https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/releases/tag/monodevelop-7.1.0.1291 git clone https://github.com/mono/monodevelop.git monodevelop cd monodevelop git checkout tags/monodevelop-7.1.0.1291 -b monodevelop-7.1.0.1291 git submodule update --init --recursive ./configure --prefix=/usr --profile=stable XDG_CONFIG_HOME="`pwd`"/config LD_PRELOAD="" make It fails with: make[2]: msbuild: Command not found I did try to build msbuild some time ago but did not succeed: https://github.com/tpokorra/lbs-mono-fedora/issues/22
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle. Changing version to '29'.
I guess after we have Mono 5 in Fedora again, we should consider if it is possible to build a recent version of MonoDevelop for Fedora again, or if we should give up and let people use the flatpak provided by Xamarin/Microsoft? It seems Debian will not have Monodevelop in the upcoming 10th release aka Buster anymore (https://packages.debian.org/de/stretch/monodevelop).
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle. Changing version to '31'.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle. Changing version to 31.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 32 development cycle. Changing version to 32.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 33 development cycle. Changing version to 33.
adding FutureFeature so this bug does not get moved to next version
As development on monodevelop seems to have stopped, wouldn't it be better to remove this package from Fedora? There is not much point in keeping an old version of an abandoned project alive. " NOTICE This project has not been built nor maintained since January 2020 and has been archived If you are interested in working on the project, even when archived you can still create a fork of it. " Source: https://github.com/mono/monodevelop#readme