[Mono-osx] Banshee on OSX

[Eoin Hennessy]

Hi Miguel,

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com> wrote:
> Are you looking into having a bundle that contains Mono?
>
> My advise is that you make your application depend on a previous Mono
> installation as you should really think of Mono as a Framework, and have
> users depend on that.   Otherwise users will end up with multiple copies
> of Mono on their system.

I think depending on the installed framework is definitely the way to
go and that's how I've been approaching the port. This has lead to
some minor issues. For example the version of glib included with the
framework looks to be too old to support the gstreamer libraries
necessary for last.fm streaming, but this can probably be worked
around.

> Your experience might be very useful in drafting the actual guidelines,
> and the process required by others to create Mono-based bundles for OSX.
>
> My suggestion at this point is that these bundles do depend on an
> installed Mono framework package though.

I'm making progress and should have something testable within a week or so.

Thanks for the advise,
Eoin