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A repository to track efforts to produce a source tarball of the .NET Core SDK and all its components

16 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 0 stories, 16 comments · first 2017-10-10 · latest 2025-11-26

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  1. Yes - Ubuntu, Alpine, Fedora, and others. [1] [1]: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/blob/main/README.md#n...
    comment by lbussell · 2025-11-26 · in Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)
  2. …(including Rust). I believe there is an ongoing work to modify .NET's full source build (i.e. https://github.com/dotnet/source-build ) to satisfy Debian's admission requirements, but really it's a problem inflicted by Debian on themselves,…
    comment by neonsunset · 2025-03-18 · in HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
  3. …https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/tree/main/src/Cli/dotnet/Telem... In any case, Debian would use https://github.com/dotnet/source-build and dotnet/dotnet, and could easily include the argument or a patch for this. It’s unlikely to be an…
    comment by neonsunset · 2024-08-28 · in Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
  4. …[4]: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/main/lang/dotn... [5]: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build
    comment by MarkSweep · 2024-08-27 · in Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
  5. …are technically challenging for Linux distributions to package because of the runtime dependency. https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/discussions/2960 . Git Credential Manager indeed release a self-contained binary for Linux x86_64 (no…
    comment by mattme · 2023-06-01 · in Show HN: Git credential helper using OAuth in browser
  6. There seems to be a discussion at https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/discussions/2960
    comment by milliams · 2023-06-01 · in Show HN: Git credential helper using OAuth in browser
  7. …the dependencies that an average dotnet application needs. We are starting to work through it here: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/discussions/2960 . Any advice/tips/contributions would be welcome, I think.
    comment by omajid · 2022-08-17 · in .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
  8. …in Homebrew https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dotnet Other distributions are welcome to join: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/discussions/2803
    comment by omajid · 2022-08-16 · in .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
  9. here people mess with FreeBSD afaik: Building the .NET Core SDK on FreeBSD https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/1139
    comment by tester756 · 2022-08-06 · in Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
  10. …want to build .NET Core yourself, Microsoft provides you with the steps necessary to do so here: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build Maybe our definitions of open source are different, or maybe you're just shitting on Microsoft for your…
    comment by GiorgioG · 2022-05-17 · in Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale
  11. …while and it evolved quite a lot while I was watching it. The system for the source build is here: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build
    comment by MarkSweep · 2021-09-01 · in C# for Systems Programming
  12. It's coming. Progress is being tracked in these places: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/1139 https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/14537
    comment by 1MachineElf · 2021-03-17 · in FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience
  13. …in the future or sabotage what they can. Even dot net core is not free and open source yet. https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/blob/release/3.0/Docu... Even as they say everything is fine, I imagine they are fending off constant…
    comment by mcny · 2019-07-10 · in Microsoft Attempting to Destroy the Careers of Its Critics
  14. …it solves your specific scenario, but I do know that there's been some work done in this area. See https://github.com/dotnet/source-build#net-core-build-script... and https://github.com/dotnet/arcade#arcade
    comment by matthewwarren · 2018-12-14 · in Exploring the .NET Core Runtime
  15. …being actually free and open source is a show stopper but I'm glad there's finally some progress. https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/782 I don't get it. They rewrite the whole think from scratch and there's still code they can't…
    comment by mcny · 2018-11-09 · in What Makes .NET Core So Special?
  16. …you had to have .Net Core installed to build .Net Core. There is now a way to build from source ( https://github.com/dotnet/source-build ), but it only works on Linux.
    comment by svick · 2017-10-10 · in .NET core spies on users by default