[Mono-dev] Mono 2.4 Preview Packages for Debian/Unstable

[Anders Rune Jensen]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Mirco Bauer <meebey at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>

Hi

Upgraded my Ubuntu (latest release) machine and it's working great. It fixed
an ugly bug in the old 2.0 release that is still in Ubuntu.

I tested Nemo and everything is working great. Thanks a lot for keeping the
packages updated!


>
> yes here they are, the Debian packages for lovely Mono 2.4!
>
> Here the Debian NEWS teaser of Mono 2.4:
>
> mono (2.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
>
>  * Mono 2.4 ships a lot of goodies:
>    + SIMD support in Mono.
>    + No expensive polls in the threading implementation any longer.
>    + Speed-up garbarge collection on multi-core systems.
>    + Optimized XPath (using 15% less memory).
>    + Faster DateTime.TryParse implementation (by not using try/catch).
>    + Support for precompiled ASP.NET pages.
>  * Complete Announcement of Mono 2.4 (vs Mono 2.2):
>    http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.4
>
>  * Mono 2.2 also ships with lovely things:
>    + The tree-based code generation engine in the JIT was replaced
>    with the
>      Linear IL engine, which allows better optimizations.
>    + Generic sharing is now used in all cases (reduces memory usage).
>    + Generic sharing is now supported on ARM.
>    + Support of full Ahead of Time Compilation.
>    + New PerformanceCounters implementation that allows to monitor the
>      runtime internals. Including the GUI tool "mperfmon" to view them.
>    + Interactive shell called "csharp" that allows to execute C#
>      expressions inside a shell. There is also a GUI version available
>      called "gsharp".
>    + Live Inspection. You can attach using the csharp shell to a
>      running process and run code inside to debug things.
>    + The C# compiler will now optimize empty strings ("") away with
>      String.Empty (which reduces memory usage).
>    + The Regular Expressions engine has been rewritten being more
>      efficient.
>      At the same time compiled regex are also supported now.
>    + ASP.NET supports now new routing handlers needed by ASP.NET MVC.
>    + In the WinForms implementation were almost 200 bugs fixed (since
>    Mono 2.0)
>  * Complete Announcement of Mono 2.2 (vs Mono 2.0):
>    http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.2
>
>  * Mono 2.0 shipped with:
>    + A console debugger (mdb) part of the mono-debugger package.
>    + WinForms 2.0 API is complete.
>    + WinForms's WebBrowser was implemented using Mozilla's Gecko HTML
>      rendering engine.
>    + WinForms now supports international keyboard input through XIM.
>    + Performance of locking (used by threading) was significally
>    improved.
>    + New debug parameter "--debug=cast" which print outs the types
>      in forInvalidCastException.
>    + The C# compiler supports now expression trees (for LINQ) which
>      completes the C# 3.0 support.
>    + The C# compiler is now dual-licensed under MIT/X11 and GPLv2
>    (only).
>    + LINQ and LINQ to XML are now complete.
>    + Big Arrays for 64bit architectures are now support (but have to be
>      compiled using the --enable-big-arrays configure switch)
>  * Complete Announcement of Mono 2.0:
>    http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.0
>
>  -- Mirco Bauer <meebey at debian.org>  Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:58:39 +0200
>
> Here the APT repository (x86 only) for the packages:
> deb http://debian.meebey.net/pkg-mono/mono /
>
> The release schedule goes like this:
>
> - upload to debian.meebesy.net (completed)
>
> - once I received some positive feedback I will push the packages as -1
> to Debian/Experimental.
>
> - once the packages passed the NEW queue I will upload them to
>  Debian/Unstable.
>
> - sync with Ubuntu/Karmic
>
> Happy Mono 2.4ing!
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Mirco 'meebey' Bauer
>
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Anders Rune Jensen
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