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+**MonoDevelop** is a full-featured integrated development environment (IDE) for mono
+using Gtk#.
+
+See http://www.monodevelop.com for more info.  
+
+Directory organization
+----------------------
+
+There are two main directories:
+
+ * main: The core MonoDevelop assemblies and add-ins (all in a single
+    tarball/package).
+ * extras: Additional add-ins (each add-in has its own
+    tarball/package).
+
+Compiling
+---------
+
+If you are building from Git, make sure that you initialize the submodules
+that are part of MonoDevelop, to do this execute:
+
+`git submodule update --init --recursive`
+
+To compile execute:
+
+`./configure ; make`
+
+There are two variables you can set when running 'configure':
+
+`--prefix=/path/to/prefix: To set the install prefix.`
+
+You can use `--prefix="pkg-config --variable=prefix mono"` to get MD
+installed with the rest of mono/gtk-sharp/etc.
+
+`--profile=profile-name: To choose one build profile.`
+
+There are some predefined profiles:
+
+ * stable: builds the MonoDevelop core and some stable extra add-ins.
+ * core: builds the MonoDevelop core only.
+ * all: builds everything
+
+You can create your own profiles if you need to
+
+To create a profile you only have to add a file to the profiles directory
+containing a list of the directories to build.
+
+You can run MonoDevelop from the build directory without having to
+install it by executing:
+
+`make run`
+
+Installing *(Optional)*
+----------
+
+`make install`
+
+(It's possible that you need to install for your locale to be
+correctly set.)
+
+Packaging for OSX
+-----------------
+
+To package MonoDevelop for OSX in a convenient MonoDevelop.app
+file, just do this after MonoDevelop has finished building (with
+make):
+
+`cd main/build/MacOSX ; make MonoDevelop.app`
+
+Dependencies
+------------
+
+	Mono >= 3.0.4
+	Gtk# >= 2.12.8
+	monodoc >= 1.0
+	mono-addins >= 0.6
+
+Special Environment Variables
+-----------------------------
+
+BUILD_REVISION
+
+	If this environment variable exists we assume we are compiling inside wrench.
+	We use this to enable raygun only for 'release' builds and not for normal
+	developer builds compiled on a dev machine with 'make && make run'.
+
+
+References
+----------
+
+**MonoDevelop website**
+
+http://www.monodevelop.com
+
+**Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)**
+
+http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/
+
+**freedesktop.org standards**
+
+http://freedesktop.org/Standards/
+
+**Integrating with GNOME (a little out of date)**
+
+http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/integrating_gnome.html
+
+**Bugzilla**
+
+http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/bugwritinghelp.html
+
+http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
+
+Discussion, Bugs, Patches
+-------------------------
+
+monodevelop-list@lists.ximian.com *(questions and discussion)*
+
+monodevelop-patches-list@lists.ximian.com *(track commits to MonoDevelop)*
+
+monodevelop-bugs@lists.ximian.com *(track MonoDevelop bugzilla component)*
+
+http://bugzilla.xamarin.com *(submit bugs and patches here)*
+