[Mono-dev] monolite URL

[Alex J Lennon]

On 11/12/2014 10:51, Robert Jordan wrote:
> On 11.12.2014 07:33, Alex J Lennon wrote:
>>> The thing to keep in mind is that the corlib version inside monolite
>>> needs to match the runtime version or bootstrapping the classlib build
>>> won't work, so you can't just keep an old monolite and use it to build
>>> newer Mono (at least that's how I understood it).
>>>
>>
>> This is also news to me and very helpful to know thanks. I am not
>> disagreeing but I am surprised that we have to have an exactly matching
>> build of monolite for this, whereas we don't  if using a "full-fat"
>> Mono. I wonder why that is? Because monolite is very barebones just for
>> bootstrapping purposes ?
>
> Monolite (a mcs + basic BCL) does not contain a Mono
> runtime. That's the reason why its corlib must match the
> runtime that you are about to build.
>
> On the other hand, a full Mono does not have this limitation
> because it comes with its own runtime + BCL + mcs. These are
> by design always in sync.

Thanks for the background Robert.