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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (5 children)

here we don't want to deal with this shit anymore, you do all the free work

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    There’s no work left to do on Mono and this is just handing over stewardship of the old code for legacy purposes.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The .NET framework adds new APIs all the time

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    .NET Framework was retired years ago by Microsoft and is in maintenance mode.

    .NET (formerly .NET Core) is actively developed and is where Mono was forked into, hence Mono no longer being required. About the only thing Mono might be used for now is running .NET Framework binaries directly on Linux where you might not want the full .NET Framework under wine for compatibility or whatever reason. For example, running TShock (a Terraria server implementation) on Linux.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Thank you Microsoft! Eternal gratitude for the kind things you do for us in the Free Software community...

    I'm not explicitly mentioned in the post, but effectively the maintainer duties for the Mono project now fall on me.

    -- Esme Povirk

    I am going to have to request that issues and code contributions be refiled at Winehq for those who still care about them. I have enough on my plate just getting things up and running in their new home, along with my other duties at CodeWeavers, and I don't have the bandwidth to sort through that whole backlog.

    -- Esme Povirk

    libgdiplus does, as it's a Mono (class library) dependency. So do any submodules. But I don't think we can handle separate projects like MonoDevelop, unless they're important for some reason.

    -- Esme Povirk

    I can't spend any time on it, I'm stretched thin as it is. Winehq could probably provide a space for it, but I can't help with development.

    -- Esme Povirk

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    I hope this means I can use paint.NET on wine, because that one single program is the reason I dual boot.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    God damn, I've got a LOT of music software I still keep Windows for. Cubase and Native Instruments mostly, and there's not a chance in hell they'll ever release Linux versions kitty-cri-screm

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    Goofy aah C#

    Who remembers mono develop? I do

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