[Mono-list] Mono 2.6 for Ubuntu

[Alan McGovern]

Hey,

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Chorn Sokun <chornsokun at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it all that easy as Peter mention why not some kind mono Guru provide
> packaging for some weak heart like me :D


It's the debian/ubuntu gurus who package it for debian/ubuntu. The issue is
not how difficult/easy it is to compile a newer mono. The issue is that to
distribute a newer mono there'd be a lot of regression testing to be done to
ensure nothing breaks. No-one could be bothered doing that due to lack of
time/interest.

If you want to run a newer mono on your system you can always follow the
guide at: http://www.mono-project.com/Parallel_Mono_Environments so that it
does not conflict with your system.

Alan.


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> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Peter Hagen <peter at wingsofdeath.nu>wrote:
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>>  Hi
>>
>> I don't understand the problem, I compiled 2.6.1 and MD 2.2 on Ubuntu 32
>> and 64 without a problem. No breaking anything. It works like a ... ehm..
>> [think of something good yourself].
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 08:52 -0800, Chorn Sokun wrote:
>>
>> 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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