[Mono-list] Mono 2.6 for Ubuntu

[Chorn Sokun]

In short wait or abandon Debian/Ubuntu and try OpenSuse.
Long story build it yourself get ready to break Debian/Ubuntu stability
doable be brave :)
However at the end of the day you build base on the trunk and what if you
need to redistribute your app will the end user need to build the framework
the way we did? I better wait until Ubuntu ship the version that easy enough
(2.6 with MonoDevelop 2.2) but I will keep an eye on the mono dev progress
however I stick with .NET for the time being.

Just a thought !

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On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Robert Jordan <robertj at gmx.net> wrote:

> On 12.01.2010 21:03, James Mansion wrote:
> > B.R. wrote:
> >> Universal binaries were provided at one point, in the form of an
> >> "Universal Linux Installer." These were discontinued around Mono
> >> 1.9.1, because they didn't work properly on most distros: components
> >> that were relied on were not ABI-stable, installed binaries would stop
> >> working because libs would change on the system, libs would be in the
> >> wrong places without LD_LIBRARY_PATH being set, etc. In short, it was
> >> one giant cockup for the most part, and was hence discontinued in
> >> favor of letting distro packagers handle it themselves, seeing as in
> >> almost every case, they know better.
>
> > You have to make the installation effectively self-contained. Everything
> > you say would apply to Java too - but there's just two files for that -
> > a .bin and a .rpm.
>
> Mono depends upon these libs:
>
> libexif.so
> libexpat.so
> libfontconfig.so
> libfreetype.so
> libglib-2.0.so
> libgmodule-2.0.so
> libgthread-2.0.so
> libjpeg.so
> libpng12.so
> libpthread.so
> libtiff.so
> libungif.so
> libz.so
>
> You don't really want to redistribute them, do you? If yes, who
> will take care of patching them if (security) bugs become
> apparent?
>
> How would linux look like if every large app would be
> distributed like this?
>
> Robert
>
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