[mono-packagers] Proposal to require Mono 2.4.2 and GTK# 2.12.9 for MonoDevelop 2.2

[Mirco Bauer]

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:41:09 -0400
Michael Hutchinson <m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Mirco Bauer<meebey at debian.org> wrote:
> >> * MonoDevelop 2.2 will have the ability to target parallel
> >> runtimes, so developers wishing to develop against older releases
> >> can use parallel Mono installations.
> >>
> >> Rationale for requiring GTK# 2.12.9:
> >
> > This one is only semi-good, lenny contains GTK# 2.12.1 but GTK+
> > 2.12.9, so do you really mean GTK# 2.12.9? Squeeze is fine, that
> > one has 2.12.9
> 
> Yes, I do.
> 
> GTK# 2.12.9 is the 9th point release of the GTK# binding for GTK+
> 2.12.x  -- AFAIK GTK# 2.12.9 could be used with any  of the GTK+
> 2.12.x releases.

GTK_REQUIRED_VERSION=2.12.0

You are right, that adds some work to a backport but is reasonable then.

> 
> A number of issues have been fixed since the release of GTK# 2.12.1,
> including several crashers that MD cannot work around. IMO it should
> be safe to backport GTK# 2.12.9.
> 

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