[Mono-list] Mono 1.9.0 Preview 1+ is out!!

[Thomas Wiest]

sasha wrote:
>> Please help the Mono team to make 1.9.0 the best release of Mono ever.
>> Thanks again!
>>     
>
> Few months ago I asked to fix bug 342536 
> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=342536), but it still not 
> fixed. And i can't make any additional tests because this bug blocks my 
> application at startup.
>   
We're waiting to see if this fix is too dangerous to be introduced into
1.9 at this stage. Depending on that decision, it will be in preview 3.

> Also i have a question. Don't you think that there already are too many 
> bugs in tracker?
>
> I have many small applications for .NET 1.1 and 2.0 (SWF, ASP.NET) and i 
>   try to run them using each version of mono since version ~1.1.3 during 
> few years and almost __ALL__ of them do not work properly. And when 
> people ask me: "What can you say about mono?", i can answer only one 
> thing: "is is very unstable and does not fit for real work". And this is 
> a tendency for each new version. You make new releases with new 
> features, but existing bugs fixed very slowly.
>
> For me it is clearly that Novell never overtakes Microsoft. Maybe it's 
> better to polish existing code then try to implement new features?
>   

Have you filed bugs for all of these?


Thomas