"Here, maintain this for us, we don't want to pay anyone to do it"
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2024
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Sounds like it hasn’t had any updates in half a year (with the last major version over 5 years ago) and they’re now using their own runtime that’s included in .NET. Wine already had their own fork, so what is there to maintain?
I think most comments here just want to shit on MS and don't even want to understand what is going on. Specially because Wine was already maintaining a fork of it.
"Boy, I sure wish some megacorporation would dump a massive codebase on me to maintain without any financial assistance!"
- No one, ever
they were already maintaining a fork of Mono for quite some time. This seems to me like a ceremonial torch passing to make them the 'official' owner of the project.
I wish somebody would donate Microsoft to the recycle bin
It's too yucky to recycle
Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mono runtime in the dotnet/runtime repo and has been progressively moving workloads to that fork. That work is now complete, and we recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET which includes work from this fork.
What's left for the mono project then? What's Wine's interest in it?
Wine Mono is a fork of Mono that Wine uses to run .NET Framework applications.
Because Wine often needs to run .Net applications and Mono is the easiest way for them to do that.