[Mono-devel-list] Mono CVS build requirements.

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> > Modern server-based apps use System.Drawing, for example, consider web
> > sites that render graphics.  The same graphic components available
> > commercially for rendering on the screen can render to a bitmap
> > intended to be used for web applications.
> > 
> > Look at asp.net for various samples of System.Drawing apps.
> > 
> 
> OK, I didn't realize this because I haven't done any ASP.net yet. 
> When Mono relies on Cairo, how will dependencies of RPMs look like?
> Will there be a Cairo RPM for all major distributions provided by Mono? 

Yes, there will be packages for Cairo for every distribution we support
(In fact, Duncan has already announced these).

Maybe Cairo should only be a dependency on System.Drawing.dll, and we
could split up the libraries some day, but right now it is now worth the
pain to do it.   

This is mostly a distribution issue, for users of Mono on Linux, we will
certainly take care of things, and we will work with distributions to
get the right level of granularity for the Mono packages.

Miguel.