| 5 Mar 2025 |
 lzcunt | I have no idea why those two commands are any different, I am not really a dotnet person. Testing manually, it seems dotnet restore fails to find anything to restore at all. What should I do? | 21:18:19 |
 6pak | nuget would likely call the legacy mono/netfx nuget client | 21:20:34 |
| 6pak | while nixpkgs only really supports the modern dotnet sdk | 21:20:43 |
| lzcunt | Ah, is there a way to get the solution to restore with dotnet instead? | 21:21:14 |
| 6pak | what app is it? | 21:21:24 |
| lzcunt | OpenBVE | 21:21:28 |
| lzcunt | train simulator :3 | 21:21:35 |
| 6pak | "makefile" sounds like it does some custom build logic | 21:21:44 |
| lzcunt | it barely does any logic | 21:21:52 |
| lzcunt | it's checking for dependencies then just calling nuget and msbuild | 21:22:06 |
| 6pak | it uses the legacy project format and packages.config, but it should still work with modern dotnet sdk | 21:22:43 |
| 6pak | just try doing dotnet restore/dotnet build | 21:22:53 |
| lzcunt | they say to build with mono but idk the difference between dotnet core and mono | 21:23:08 |
| lzcunt |
Determining projects to restore...
Nothing to do. None of the projects specified contain packages to restore.
| 21:23:44 |
| 6pak | mono has been abandoned for years | 21:23:48 |
| lzcunt | *
Determining projects to restore...
Nothing to do. None of the projects specified contain packages to restore.
| 21:23:53 |
| 6pak | ever since dotnet was open sourced | 21:23:55 |
| lzcunt | this is with dotnet restore | 21:24:08 |
| 6pak | * mono has been (effectively) abandoned for years | 21:24:13 |
| 6pak | actually no, project.json is still somewhat supported by dotnet restore, but packages.config never was | 21:25:56 |
| lzcunt | I wonder how complicated it would be to patch them to use dotnet core instead of mono with 0 dotnet knowledge | 21:26:06 |
| 6pak | so you'd have to either convert the project to modern format (which should be somewhat easy if you know c#) or build using mono in nixpkgs | 21:26:33 |
| lzcunt | I know very basic C# but not the tooling around it | 21:26:54 |
| lzcunt | I think I'd rather do the first tbh, their linux stuff seems barely touched since 2020 | 21:27:19 |
| lzcunt | it'd be awesome to get them up to date on this | 21:27:36 |
| 6pak | 
Download image.png | 21:28:52 |
| 6pak | 40 projects, ouch | 21:28:55 |
| lzcunt | oof | 21:29:07 |
| 6pak | I'd say the ideal solution is to migrate to modern (sdk-style) project format upstream, but that does need a bit msbuild experience | 21:29:55 |
| 6pak | and it would be a bit of work with 40 projects | 21:30:06 |
