[Mono-list] Fresh install

[Ben Maurer]

On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 23:04 +0100, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> > For instance, should I install mono from the SuSE 
> > installation disks, or should I not do that but rather install mono via 
> > red carpet or something?
> 
> >From source. I would *always* recommend from source unless the person
> does not feel technically up to the task in which case,

Uhm, what issues have you found with your packages? I know that we
aren't able to support gtk# on a distro the day it comes out. But for
mono itself our packages should work flawlessly. OTOH, compiling takes a
bit of time and is error prone.

>  red carpet has
> the most up to date versions (usually)

Red Carpet will *always* have the same version as the downloads page
has. We were bad about this before the spring when I revamped our build
system. It should always be up to date now.

Wade and myself have gone to great lengths to make the build system
create packages that are easy to use and easy to find. If there is an
issue with any of them, please tell us.

-- Ben