[MonoDevelop] Monodevelop vmware image

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Sandy Armstrong
<sanfordarmstrong at gmail.com> wrote:
> j23tom wrote:
>> Some time ago I tried to compile Monodevelop 2.0 from svn on Ubuntu. I gave
>> up due to getting lost in package dependencies (lack of skills). I see a lot
>> of people has the similar problem here.
>>
>> I would be grateful if someone could prepare  vmware image with Monodevelop
>> 2.0 from svn.  If someone do so I promise to test it and fill all found bugs
>> in bugzilla :)
>
> Bugs are fixed so quickly that you'll need to be able to rebuild from
> svn all the time, if testing latest svn is your intent.  You'd really be
> better off getting your build situation figured out.  :-)

I broadly agree with that, but MD 2 now requires Mono 2, which is
somewhat more challenging to build/install than MD, and Ubuntu doesn't
have it yet. For this reason, I'd recommend using the Mono 2.0 VMWare
image from http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads.

>From this VM you should be able to install my trunk packages with the
1-click installer at
http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/home:MJHutchinson/openSUSE_11.0/monodevelop.ymp

These packages have not been updated for a few weeks because of
instability in trunk, but I will start updating them very soon.

If you do decide to build Mono from source, please read
http://mjhutchinson.com/journal/2007/11/08/how_not_break_mono and use
a parallel environment.

-- 
Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com