bug#44847: closed ([Petition] Add a dotnet 5.0 support)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: [Petition] Add a dotnet 5.0 support Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:55:24 +0000

C# is a widely used programming language, so having support fot it will expand the guix potential userbase by a lot.

AFAIK the only things needed for this are:

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime to run .NET managed applications
https://github.com/dotnet/sdk To build apps

Just in case this is helpful, there is also a source-build https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/

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> Hi Abraham,
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> Abraham Jose <abraham.juegos1237@gmail.com> writes:
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> > C# is a widely used programming language, so having support fot it
> > will expand the guix potential userbase by a lot.
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> I agree!  C# and its much cooler sibling F# are pretty nice languages.
> (We do have a very old version of Mono, but I’m guessing that’s not what
> you want.)  Unfortunately, there’s a big issue getting .NET into Guix...
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> > AFAIK the only things needed for this are:
> > https://github.com/dotnet/runtime to run .NET managed applications
> > https://github.com/dotnet/sdk To build apps
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> > Just in case this is helpful, there is also a source-build
> > https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/
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> This is pretty cool.  Microsoft is trying to get the core .NET
> components to meet the distribution requirements of a couple of key
> GNU/Linux distributions (including at least Fedora and Debian).  This
> means they have been working (since at least early 2018) to make sure
> that all the source code is free and available, and that building from
> source is possible for third parties.  So far so good!
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> A quick glance around suggests that an older version of .NET is
> available for Fedora 32, and that Debian does not have a package yet.
> That’s at least promising, but Guix has stricter requirements than
> either of those two distributions.  Particularly, Guix tries to avoid
> packages that cannot be bootstrapped from source.  From the README of
> the repository you linked to:
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>     Nearly all .NET Core repositories require the .NET Core SDK to
>     build. This is a circular dependency, which presents a bootstrapping
>     problem.
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> This means that Guix is unlikely to accept .NET Core packages.  Because
> of that, I’m closing this bug.
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> That being said, anybody could package .NET for Guix and put it in a
> separate channel.  Beyond the repository you linked to, there is a
> Fedora working group: <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/DotNet>.
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> -- Tim
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