Re: [pkg-mono-group] Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2013-09-12 Thread Jo Shields
It took a while, but I conned an upstream developer without any ties to the last effort into doing it, and it's happening on Xamarin company time as part of a general effort to improve ARM support. With the recent iPhone 5S announcement it's become business critical for them (due to the ARMv8 AB

Re: Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2013-09-12 Thread peter green
John Masseria wrote: Is this request still outstanding? Mono was dropped from debian wheezy armhf:(, it's still in raspbian wheezy and still buggy there. I was hoping to replace it with a working version when a working version hit sid but no working version has hit sid. There is apparently

Re: Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2013-09-12 Thread John Masseria
On Wednesday, February 1, 2012 8:50:01 PM UTC-5, Jo Shields wrote: > Right now, Mono is available in Debian armhf. This is a hack - what > > we're actually doing is building Mono as an armhf binary, but built to > > emit soft VFP instructions and using calling conventions and ABI for > > armel.