[Mono-list] Mono 2.6 for Ubuntu

[Petit Eric]

I don't why but gmail took the i586 at the end and broke the link so :
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/surfzoid:/DebianUbuntu:/Mono/

2010/1/11 Petit Eric <surfzoid at gmail.com>:
> Hi
> I already made everything, in OBS :
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/surfzoid:/DebianUbuntu:/Mono/
> I586 should be ok, but OBS seems to have trouble with hte X86_64 machines.
> If you want to help me and OBS you are really welcome :-)
>
> 2010/1/11 B.R. <severedcross at gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:11 AM, daniel <trampster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Why is there no official support for ubuntu.
>>>
>>> I mean it is the largest desktop linux distribution.
>>>
>>> You support Windows which lets face it not all that many people use
>>> mono on windows, and why would they when .net runs on windows. Even mono
>>> develop uses the .net runtime on windows. And yet you have support for
>>> windows from day one.
>>>
>>> However if I want the latest mono on ubuntu I have to wait for the next
>>> version of the operating system to be released to get it.
>>>
>>> Do I have to wait for microsoft to release window 8 to get mono 2.6? no
>>> so why should I have to wait for it on ubuntu 10.04 to get it?
>>>
>>> End of rant.
>>
>> It's not really up to Novell here, it's up to the Debian/Ubuntu maintainers
>> to decide when new versions get supported. Part of the reason for this is
>> that Debian, and by extension Ubuntu, have very specific policies on how
>> things should be packaged (the Debian Free Software Guidelines are very
>> strict, and the Mono project does violate them in a few places), and Novell
>> simply haven't the resources to invest in hiring someone specifically to do
>> Debian (and by extension Ubuntu) packaging, so it's left up to the
>> maintainers who do a pretty good job with the time and resources they have.
>> The reason binaries are shipped for Windows with every release is because
>> there's no package specification to follow, so the binary packages are easy
>> to build (build the libs, put them in the right places, package them up in
>> an installer and you're good to go).
>> As far as what Ubuntu ships, Ubuntu isn't going to get a Mono later than
>> 2.4.3 until Lucid+1 at least, because Lucid is going to be a LTS release,
>> and will ship with 2.4.3, Mono's stable, long-term support branch. Debian
>> sid may already have 2.6 (I'm not 100% sure on this, don't have a box to
>> check on), and it should also have MonoDevelop 2.2.
>> If you want the packages now, you could always take the Debian packaging
>> setup for 2.4.x and try and update it to build the newer packages, or you
>> could build Mono from source without packages yourself if you want a newer
>> version, though I recommend you read the page on Parallel Mono Environments
>> before you do that.
>> --B.R.
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