[Mono-list] Re: Some general advice for a newbie, please

[Mark Eggers]

On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:11:42 +0000, peter wrote:

> Paul wrote:
> 
> This is what happened to the subversion download:
> 
> <quote>
> Performing cvs update of Cairo/libpixman. Press return for password
> Logging in to :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.cairographics.org:2401/cvs/cairo CVS
> password:
> cvs login: warning: failed to open /root/.cvspass for reading: No such
> file or directory
> cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
> cvs [update aborted]: no repository
> cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
> cvs [update aborted]: no repository
> Checking out monodevelop
> 
> <hangs />
> </quote>

Paul,

On my website
(http://webpages.charter.net/mdeggers/howto-mono-fedora.html), I've listed
the locations for all the tarballs that I used.  I just checked the Cairo
website and was able to get the tarball CVS snapshots for libpixman and
libcairo.

I decided to use the snapshots rather than checking out the bleeding edge
version from CVS.  This seems to work well for 1.0.5.  I haven't tried the
dev branch of 1.1.3.  It is on my list of things to do, since I am
interested in building cross-platform GUI applications with as little
change to the Windows side that I can get away with.

Currently I develop cross-platform applications in Java and I'm interested
in seeing how Mono/C#/.NET stacks up.  So far it's been six to one, half a
dozen to the other.

Maybe I'll just stick with perl . . .

/mde/
just my two cents . . . .