[Mono-list] Generic Linux installer for Mono 2.1 still missing (or just the files)

Miguel de Icaza miguel at novell.com
Mon Nov 17 00:02:10 EST 2008


> Why make it predict anything? From my experience, packages are either
> put into /usr/local, /usr or /opt - why not just have a radio button on
> the installer?

Developers used the installer to install private copies of Mono in their
home directories.

I also loved the idea of the installer, but developers that had multiple
versions of Mono installed ended up with partial setups of Mono and
people would complain that things were broken.

Miguel



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