[Mono-devel-list] corlib runtime versioning

Paolo Molaro lupus at ximian.com
Fri Jan 23 11:18:47 EST 2004


On 01/22/04 Ben Maurer wrote:
> One thought I have had is that we should have the following in the build
> system:
> 
> Right before mono is about to install itself, it should execute:
> 
> mono --check-version (where mono is the mono that was just built)
> 
> This will return `1' if the version is too old or too new (with a
> message, etc) or `0' if all is well.

I changed mono so that "mono --verbose --version" will check if the
corlib will match, print the error and exit with a non-zero value.
We can't put the check into the install process, though, since that
would prevent the installation of new versions of mono.

lupus

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