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There is no #develop installer for Linux because #develop as it is cannot be built on Linux as far as I can tell. There are some windows specific bits in the code. Perhaps you can try to run a build of the current source code and see whether you can work around these bits.

BernhardSpuida:

There is no #develop installer for Linux because #develop as it is cannot be built on Linux as far as I can tell. There are some windows specific bits in the code. Perhaps you can try to run a build of the current source code and see whether you can work around these bits.

It would more than likely reside in the realm that #D utilizes platform invocations (a.k.a. - Pinvokes) that access Win32 api's and rely on other system specific resources of which are ' Windows specific ' in contrast to Linux system resources. Any conversions of pinvokes within the .Net Framework pointing to or calling system resources from a Linux system would have to be incredibly generic and more than likely fall into the category of Debian for this fact.

 You can probably guess that it will happen, but the main issue is when will it happen, and that requires an answer that noone really has access to at this point. Mono and/or GNU.Net are probably going to be the goto guys and gals regarding this issue.

  Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope for a speedy port.

 I tried running SharpDevelop on Linux; the main problem are not the P/Invokes - we don't use many of them and most are trivial to replace.

The main problem is that Mono's .NET implementation has tons of bugs - Managed.Windows.Forms frequently crashes or hangs with complex forms; and that Mono's implementation of Microsoft.Build.Framework is extremly incomplete.

Also, Mono cannot even compile SharpDevelop due to bugs in their C# compiler.

For the Win32 PinVoke part, there isn't a way (lot or not lot stuff) to just add a "Not Implemented exception", for all Win32 part and when Linux User folow this exception, guess to implemented or not with *nix equivalant ?

The "if (Environment.OSVersion.Platform != PlatformID.Unix)" should be enought No ? 

I actually played with Mono a bit and got SharpDevelop starting. However, there are tons of bugs in the Windows.Forms implementation that make SharpDevelop impossible to use. Opening nearly anything causes an endless loop in Mono's Windows.Forms.

And I had to comment out basically the whole build system (opening solutions, compiling, etc.) - Mono is missing an implementation for Microsoft.Build.* (the Mono version of those libraries are just stubs that throw NotImplementedException() on nearly every call.

Do you try this "Mono" app under linux ?

If yu want to try a Mono/Net app i write this one who seems okay on both platform:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cs-obexftp/